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10 Cents - George VI
| Issuer | Commissioners of Currency, Malaya |
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| Year | 1948-1950 |
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| Weight | 2.83 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Royal Mint, London |
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The Commissioners of Currency, Malaya was a joint issuing body established in 1938 to serve British Malaya and Borneo under a unified currency arrangement — a deliberate consolidation that survived the Japanese occupation, during which the invading administration issued its own "banana money" that rendered pre-war Malayan coinage temporarily obsolete. The 1948–1950 copper-nickel issues represent the postwar resumption of that authority, struck as the Federation of Malaya was being constituted and the Malayan Emergency was already underway.
The shift to copper-nickel from the earlier silver compositions had been made permanent by wartime silver shortages.