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1/4 Rupee Japanese Government
| Issuer | Japanese Government |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 1/4 Rupee |
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| Obverse lettering | 1/4 THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT 1/4 RUPEE BQ 大日本帝國政府 大臣臧 1/4 |
| Reverse description | Uniface blue print on plain paper. A dense guilloche medallion occupies the centre, with the fraction "1/4" rendered in large numerals within an interlocking rosette pattern. The medallion is set within a rectangular guilloche border composed of repeating lace-work lobes, with the denomination "1/4" repeated in each of the four corners. |
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Japan's wartime occupation issues for Malaya and the broader Southern Regions were produced without serial numbers and in enormous quantities — partly by design, as the occupying administration needed currency fast and saw no particular reason to track individual notes. The quarter rupee, the smallest denomination in the Burma-area rupee series, was the workhorse of low-value transactions under occupation. Printing was handled in Japan, though the notes make no reference to this.
The watermark — unusual for an occupation emergency issue — was retained from the outset, though it did little to deter local forgeries, which became a significant problem by 1944.