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1 Cent - George VI small type
| Issuer | Commissioners of Currency, Malaya |
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| Year | 1943-1945 |
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| Engraver(s) | Percy Metcalfe |
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| Mint | Royal Mint (London) |
| Mintage | 1943 - - 50,000,000 1943 - Proof - 1945 - - 40,033,000 1945 - Proof - |
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Malaya's wartime cent production is complicated by Japanese occupation, which began in February 1942 and effectively suspended the Commissioners of Currency. The 1943–1945 issues were struck in London and Bombay for post-liberation use, not for circulation during the occupation itself — the Japanese military administration had imposed its own currency, the "banana money," by then.
The Bombay-struck pieces are distinguishable by the small raised dot beneath the date.