Rp500 — Five Hundred Rupiah
The artwork
Front: No portrait here — the note gives its face over to a plant. At the left stands a flowering Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum of Sumatra, its pale spadix rising from a deep red spathe and captioned in small type with the Latin name. The denomination is spelled out in full, LIMA RATUS RUPIAH, above the year 1982 and the signatures of the Gubernur and a Direktur. The Garuda Pancasila crest sits top right, engraver's credit SOERITO DEL below.
Back: A wide engraved view of a Bank Indonesia office building: a colonnaded two-storey block with a tiled roof, the national flag on a pole before it and BANK INDONESIA lettered across the façade, framed by heavy shade trees and garden railings. The scene sits in an oval of guilloche work, with the serial number PBL 089404 twice, and a counterfeiting-penalty notice in Indonesian running along the ornamented lower band.
In circulation
Issued in 1982 as part of Bank Indonesia's flora-and-fauna designs of the period, and current through the 1980s. A new 500 rupiah note followed in 1988, and once the 500 rupiah coin took over the denomination the paper note was retired from everyday use.
Details
- IssuerBank Indonesia
- CurrencyRupiah (Rp)
- DenominationFive Hundred Rupiah
- Collectedon the Indonesia journeys, 1993–2011
- Series1982, dated on the face
- PrinterPerum Percetakan Uang Republik Indonesia (PERURI), credited at lower right
- SignatureTwo signatures, titled Gubernur and Direktur
- SecurityIndonesian penalty clause against imitating or circulating counterfeit notes, printed on the back