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1 Cent Japanese Occupation
| Issuer | Japanese Government (大日本帝國政府) |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark green on a plain pale background, the reverse is composed entirely of geometric guilloche work. A large central cartouche encloses an intricate rosette of fine lace-like lathe-work with the numeral "1" at its centre, flanked by floral ornamental fillers; each of the four corners carries the numeral "1" set within a scroll-work roundel, and a dense guilloche border frames the entire composition. |
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| Variants | P#119a - two Block letters P#119b - fractional Block |
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Issued for occupied Malaya and Borneo following the rapid Japanese advance through Southeast Asia in early 1942, this note was part of the "banana money" series — so called by locals who resented the near-worthless scrip the occupying administration forced into circulation as a substitute for Straits dollar coinage. The Japanese military government printed these in Japan and shipped them in bulk, with no serial numbers on the lower denominations, a deliberate cost-cutting measure that made counterfeiting trivially easy.
By 1945, hyperinflation had rendered the entire series economically useless. Surrender made it officially worthless overnight.