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| 表面の説明 | The obverse is printed in dark purple on a pale pink ground, with a central guilloche underprint in rose. A breadfruit tree vignette rises at left centre and a coconut palm with fruit clusters occupies the upper right, both rendered in fine letterpress. Numeral counters within dotted oval frames appear at left and right, with serial-prefix block letters below, and a small circular seal at lower left; a panel of Chinese characters (大日本帝國政府) is set within an ornamental frame at the base. |
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| 裏面の説明 | The reverse is printed entirely in dark blue on an unprinted cream ground, with an elaborate all-over guilloche pattern composed of interlocking lobed cartouches radiating from a central rectangular panel. The numeral "1" is set in bold within the central panel, flanked by further "1" counters at each lateral margin; scrollwork corner ornaments and a fine engine-turned border complete the geometric design, with no textual inscription. |
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The "banana money" nickname wasn't coined by collectors — it came from the Malayan and Singaporean populations who received these notes as occupying Japanese forces replaced Straits Settlements currency after the fall of Singapore in February 1942. The Japanese military printed these notes without serial numbers and with no issuing bank backing them, which made counterfeiting trivially easy. Allied forces, particularly the OSS and British SOE, exploited this almost immediately, flooding occupied territories with forged notes to accelerate the inflation already grinding down civilian purchasing power.
By 1945, hyperinflation had rendered the series functionally worthless. The banana nickname itself likely derived from the banana tree motif on the higher denominations in the series, transferred colloquially to the whole issue.