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250 Rupiah
| Issuer | Residency of Sumatera Utara (North Sumatra), Kutaradja |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Value | 250 Rupiah |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK - INDONESIA Dua Ratus Lima Puluh Rupiah Kutaradja, 1 Maret 1949. Gubernur Sumatera Utara Tanda pembajaran jang sah berlaku untuk Daerah Sumatera Utara. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-grey on cream paper, with a mountain range vignette running along the upper and lower borders as decorative guilloche elements. The denomination Dua ratus lima puluh RUPIAH is set in bold letterpress at center-right, flanked by the numeral 250 repeated in each corner. Two columns of legal warning text in Indonesian occupy the left and right panels, citing the relevant articles of Indonesian criminal law. |
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The Residency of Sumatera Utara notes from 1949 belong to a chaotic transitional moment — the Dutch were fighting to reassert colonial control during the Indonesian National Revolution, while Republican authorities were issuing emergency regional currency to keep local economies functioning outside Dutch-held territory. Kutaradja, the administrative capital of Aceh, was firmly in Republican hands through most of this period, which made it a practical center for emergency issue operations.
Regional residency notes like this one were stopgap instruments, authorized locally rather than through the central Republic's banking apparatus in Yogyakarta. Survival rates are low — wartime paper, heavy circulation, and no organized archival collection effort account for that.