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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in tiara and pearl necklace at right, within an ornate intaglio frame, with a large numeral '1' vignette in blue guilloche at left centre. The legal tender inscription appears in English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil scripts in the central panel, with the date '21st March 1953' and a facsimile signature below the numeral. A decorative border of fine guilloche engraving frames the entire face. |
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| Obverse lettering | Board of Commissioners of Currency Malaya and British Borneo This note is legal tender for One Dollar in the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei |
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The Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo was itself a transitional institution — created in 1952 to unify the separate currency systems of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo, Sarawak, and Brunei under a single issuing authority. This 1953 dollar was among the first notes it produced, appearing just as the Federation of Malaya was moving toward independence and the board's own eventual dissolution.
Waterlow & Sons had printed colonial currency across Southeast Asia for decades. The single signatory, W.C. Taylor, served as the board's first chairman.