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10 Rupiah
| Issuer | Governor of Bukittinggi, Sumatra |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Value | 10 Rupiah |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-grey with a uniform wavy-line guilloche underprint covering the entire field. To the left, a circular sunflower-style rosette vignette encloses the numeral "10". To the right, a rectangular text panel carries a legal tender declaration in Bahasa Indonesia referencing Presidential Regulation No. 1 of 1946 concerning criminal law provisions on counterfeiting. The composition is spare and typographic, with decorative scroll elements at the lateral margins. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Tanda pembajaran ini dianggap sah sebagai "Uang kertas" seperti tersebut dalam pasal IX sampai XIII dari undang2 Presiden No.1 th. 1946 tentang peraturan hukum Pidana |
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Bukittinggi served as the emergency capital of the Indonesian Republic during the Dutch military offensives of 1947–1948, and this note is a direct product of that siege-economy administration. The Republican government, cut off from Jakarta and under sustained Dutch pressure, issued local currency through regional governors as a stopgap measure to maintain economic function in held territory.
The Governor of Bukittinggi series is notably scarce — Dutch blockades severely restricted paper supplies, and much of what circulated was later withdrawn during post-independence monetary consolidation in the early 1950s.