Catalog
1 Dollar
| Issuer | Government of Sarawak |
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| Year | 1894-1917 |
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| Reference(s) | P#2 |
| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, at upper left, flanked at upper centre by a standing full-length vignette of Baroness Burdett-Coutts, with the arms of Sarawak at upper right. Denomination inscriptions appear in the panel below. |
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| Obverse lettering | SARAWAK ONE ONE DOLLAR |
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Sarawak at this time was the private domain of the Brooke Raj — Charles Brooke held the position of Rajah, having inherited the territory from his uncle James in 1868. The currency issued under the Government of Sarawak was therefore not colonial currency in the conventional British sense; it was issued under the authority of a hereditary monarchy unique in the nineteenth-century world.
Perkins, Bacon's involvement is unsurprising — the firm handled security printing for numerous small administrations that lacked the infrastructure for domestic production. The series ran across a notably long window, implying reorders rather than a single print run.