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500 Rupiah
| Issuer | Pemerintah Revolusioner Republik Indonesia (Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia), Celebes |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Value | 500 Rupiah |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK INDONESIA TANDA PEMBAJARAN JANG SAH LIMA RATUS 500 RUPIAH DR |
| Reverse description | Pink note with a guilloche lattice underprint throughout, enclosed within a decorative border matching the face. 'REPUBLIK INDONESIA' is printed at the top, flanked by the numeral '500' at the upper left and right corners, with 'PEMERINTAH REVOLUSIONER R.I.' identifying the issuing authority below; a central text panel carries a statutory counterfeiting warning in Indonesian, beside which the year '1958' is printed, and a facsimile signature of the Deputy Prime Minister ('Wk. Perdana Menteri') appears beneath a printed signature line. The numeral '500' repeats at all four corners. |
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The Pemerintah Revolusioner Republik Indonesia — the PRRI — declared itself the legitimate government of Indonesia in February 1958, backed by dissident military commanders in Sumatra and Sulawesi who opposed Sukarno's increasingly centralized rule and his accommodation of the PKI. This note is one of the few tangible artifacts of that short-lived parallel state. The rebellion was militarily crushed by mid-1958, with most organized resistance collapsed within months, leaving these notes unredeemed and without any formal demonetization — they simply ceased to matter.
The Celebes attribution is significant: it distinguishes this issue from the concurrent PRRI notes produced under the Sumatra-based command, indicating a degree of administrative separation between the two rebel regions.