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2½ Rupiah
| Issuer | Treasury, Tandjungkarang (Lampung Residency) |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress note on white paper, with the heading REPUBLIK INDONESIA / PROPINSI SUMATERA at the top and the denomination numeral 2½ centred within a decorative panel flanked by ornamental corner vignettes. A circular official seal reading RESIDEN N.R.I. LAMPUNG is struck in the upper right area, and a legal text box with serial number appears in the lower centre, above the issuing place and date TANDJUNGKARANG 1 JUNI 1948 and a manuscript signature of the Residen. The foot of the note bears the inscription KERESIDENAN LAMPUNG. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red on plain paper, the reverse carries a large central vignette of a tropical landscape with palm trees and foliage rendered in a woodcut style, with the numeral 2½ superimposed over the scene within a wreath border. A rectangular text panel containing a legal declaration in Indonesian occupies the lower centre of the design, framed by scrollwork borders that run along all four edges of the note. |
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This note belongs to a category of Indonesian Republican emergency issues produced at the residency level during the independence struggle — not by the central government in Jogjakarta, but by local administrative authorities scrambling to maintain a functioning money supply in territories cut off from reliable supply lines. Tandjungkarang, the administrative seat of the Lampung Residency in southern Sumatra, printed its own currency because it had to.
Locally produced issues from this period are notoriously variable in paper quality and print registration, a direct consequence of improvised production under wartime conditions. The 2½ denomination — the "two-and-a-half" unit common to Dutch colonial monetary convention — persisted in Republican issues largely out of habit and practical necessity for small transactions.