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40 Rupiah
| Issuer | Gubernur Sumatera Selatan, Republik Indonesia (Treasury, Tjurup) |
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| Year | 1949 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK INDONESIA PROPINSI SUMATERA SELATAN 40 EMPAT PULUH RUPIAH GUBERNUR SUMATERA SELATAN REPUBLIK INDONESIA TJURUP 17 - I - 1949 TANDA PEMBAJARAN JANG SAH BERLAKU UNTUK SUMATERA SELATAN |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet-brown on an unprinted ground, with an ornate guilloche border. At the left stands a large circular underprint bearing the numeral '40'. The central composition is dominated by a landscape vignette with stylised birds in flight above terraced rice fields and a conical rice-basket at lower right, rendered in a bold woodcut-like style. A rectangular text panel at centre contains a legal notice in Indonesian script regarding the validity of the note under presidential regulation. |
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The Gubernur Sumatera Selatan emergency issues of 1949 belong to a chaotic and poorly documented chapter of Indonesian monetary history — the period between the Dutch military actions and the formal transfer of sovereignty in December 1949, when provincial and regional authorities issued their own currency out of practical necessity. Central Republican authority in Java had been severely disrupted, and Sumatra operated with considerable fiscal autonomy as a result.
Tjurup, the issuing location, was a small inland town in South Sumatra, an unlikely seat of currency production. Documentation on the full series remains incomplete, and the S406 designation covers genuinely scarce material.