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5 Rupiah
| Issuer | Pemerintah Revolusioner Republik Indonesia (Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia) |
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| Year | 1959 |
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| Currency | Rupiah (1946-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue note with a vignette of a traditional Minangkabau rumah gadang (peaked-roof house) at left, surrounded by guilloche ornamental borders. The central panel carries the denomination legend in large letterpress text, with the issuer inscription at the top and the date 'SEPTEMBER 1959' at the foot. A manuscript signature of the Minister of Finance (Menteri Keuangan P.R.R.I.) appears below the central vignette, with the numeral '5' in ornamental frames at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | PRRI |
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The Pemerintah Revolusioner Republik Indonesia — better known by its acronym PRRI — was a rebel counter-government proclaimed in February 1958 from Padang, West Sumatra, in direct opposition to Sukarno's Jakarta administration. It issued its own currency as a straightforward assertion of administrative legitimacy over the territories it controlled, primarily in Sumatra and parts of Sulawesi.
The rebellion had effectively collapsed by mid-1958 after military operations, which makes a 1959-dated issue an outlier — likely printed in anticipation of a territorial hold that never materialized, or circulated within shrinking pockets of resistance in the outer islands.