Catalog
10 000 Dollars
| Issuer | Government of the Straits Settlements |
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| Year | 1919-1933 |
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| Value | 10 000 Dollars (10 000) |
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| Obverse description | Red and green bicolour print with black serial numbers. Portrait vignette of King George V facing left at upper centre, surmounted by a crown; a tiger passant to the left occupies the central field. Guilloche underprint frames the overall composition. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS Promises to pay the bearer on demand at Singapore TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS Local Currency for Valued received FOR CURRENCY COMMISSIONERS |
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The Government of the Straits Settlements — a Crown Colony administered from Singapore covering Penang, Malacca, and Singapore itself — issued this note under the Currency Ordinance framework that had replaced earlier private bank issues. A denomination of this size was never intended for retail use; these circulated exclusively between trading houses, agency companies, and banks handling the large-volume commodity transactions — rubber, tin, spice — that defined the colony's commercial purpose.
De La Rue printed the series in London across a fourteen-year window that spans the post-WWI rubber boom, the subsequent crash of the early 1920s, and the onset of the Great Depression. Survivorship at this denomination is extremely low. High-value notes in mercantile systems were typically cancelled and returned rather than worn out, meaning most were deliberately destroyed after settlement.