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10 Cents
| Emisor | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya |
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| Año | 1940 |
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| Valor | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Moneda | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
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| Tamaño | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Forma | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Impresor | Survey Department of the Federated Malay States |
| Diseñador(es) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Grabador(es) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| En circulación hasta | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
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| Descripción del anverso | Oval intaglio portrait of King George VI in military uniform at left, set within a fine guilloche border. The centre carries the legal tender inscription in English and Jawi script, the denomination numeral '10' at right, and the date '15th August 1940' below, all against a lilac and blue guilloche underprint. The issuing authority title appears across the top, with the names of the Malay states in small letterpress text along the lower border, and a manuscript signature of the Chairman of the Commissioners to the right of the serial number. |
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| Leyenda del anverso | BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF CURRENCY MALAYA THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR TEN CENTS IN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AND MALAY STATES 15TH AUGUST 1940 CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISSIONERS DESIGNED & PRINTED BY THE SURVEY DEPT. F.M.S. |
| Descripción del reverso | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Leyenda del reverso | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Firma(s) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Tipo de protección | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción de la protección | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
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The Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya was established in 1897 as a joint currency authority for the Federated and Unfederated Malay States, the Straits Settlements, and later Brunei — an unusually broad colonial monetary union. This 1940 issue was printed locally by the Survey Department of the Federated Malay States in Kuala Lumpur, making it one of the few British colonial small-denomination notes produced entirely within the territory it served.
The timing matters. These notes were already in circulation when Japanese forces invaded in December 1941. Many were destroyed by the British under a denial policy to prevent currency falling into enemy hands, and the Japanese subsequently issued their own "banana money" occupation scrip. Surviving pre-war Board issues from 1940 are genuinely scarce as a direct result.