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5000 Rupiah

Issuer Bank Indonesia
Year 1958
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Size 171 × 95 mm
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Obverse lettering 5000 BANK INDONESIA LIMA RIBU RUPIAH GUBERNUR DIREKTUR JUNALIES DEL PT. PERTJETAKAN KEBAJORAN IMP.
(Translation: 5000 Bank of Indonesia Five Thousand Rupiah Governor Director Junalies Del PT Pertjetakan Kebajoran Imp)
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Protection description Indonesian Coat of Arms (Garuda Pancasila).
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Percetakan Kebayoran was among the earliest printing facilities operated domestically by an independent Indonesian government, and this 1958 issue reflects the ambition — and the limits — of that self-sufficiency. The 5000 Rupiah denomination was the highest value in the series, at a time when hyperinflationary pressure was already eroding the currency's purchasing power significantly.

The P#64 is one of the few notes from this period designed by a named Indonesian designer rather than contracted to European security printers. Junalies is rarely documented in philatelic literature, which makes attribution here genuinely unusual for the era.

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