Catalog
10 Cents - George VI
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1939-1953) |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print on a light pink guilloche underprint. At left, an oval portrait vignette of King George VI in military uniform, set within a beaded border and elaborate scrollwork. The denomination numeral '10' appears in ornate cartouches at upper left and at right within a rosette medallion; the centre carries the legal tender declaration and denomination in large letterpress, followed by the Jawi script equivalent and the issue date '1ST JULY 1941'; at lower right, the manuscript signature of the Chairman of the Commissioners above the printed title. |
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| Signature(s) | J. Mueinberg, Chairman of the Commissioners |
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The Malaya 10 Cents of 1941 was one of the last issues completed before the Japanese invasion of December that year. Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London, and the timing created an immediate supply problem — significant quantities never reached circulation before the occupation severed normal distribution channels. Notes that did circulate did so under extraordinarily compressed conditions, with Japanese Military Administration currency forcibly displacing them within weeks of issue.
The Board of Commissioners of Currency had been established in 1938 specifically to unify currency across the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. This 10 Cents was among its last acts before the war made the institution temporarily irrelevant.