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5 Roepiah
| Issuer | Treasury, Pematang Siantar |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green note with a guilloche-patterned background throughout. At left, an oval vignette contains a portrait of a young Indonesian man in formal attire. The upper portion carries the inscriptions 'REPOEBLIK INDONESIA', 'PROPINSI SOEMATERA', and 'TANDA PEMBAJARAN JANG SAH', with the denomination 'LIMA ROEPIAH' printed in large letters at centre. A red serial number and prefix letters appear at upper right and lower left, with small text blocks containing authorization and redemption clauses flanking the central denomination. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPOEBLIK INDONESIA PROPINSI SOEMATERA TANDA PEMBAJARAN JANG SAH LIMA ROEPIAH DIKELOARKAN DI SIANTAR |
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Pematang Siantar, a highland town in North Sumatra, became an improvised issuing center during the Indonesian National Revolution when the fledgling Republic lacked a functioning central monetary authority. Regional treasuries across Sumatra printed their own emergency currency — the so-called ORIDA notes (Oeang Republik Indonesia Daerah) — using whatever presses and paper were locally available. Print quality varies dramatically across the series, and the Siantar issues are among the more crudely produced, reflecting wartime scarcity rather than any institutional shortcoming.
Dutch forces occupied Pematang Siantar during the first "Police Action" of July 1947, the same year this note was issued, which sharply curtailed its circulation window.