1/4 Cent - George V

The Straits Settlements quarter cent was by 1916 already an anachronism — a denomination so small it struggled to buy anything meaningful even in the cheapest corners of Singapore's markets. It survived in the currency system largely because Indian and Chinese laborers on rubber estates used fractional coinage in wage calculations, and colonial administrators were reluctant to disrupt those accounting conventions. The 1916 issue was struck in London, Bombay having been largely redirected toward war production by that point in the conflict.