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| Uitgever | Government of Sarawak |
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| Jaar | 1929-1940 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Printed in red on a pale ground, the obverse presents an intaglio portrait of Charles Vyner Brooke in three-quarter view at right, with an oval guilloche frame enclosing a central vignette of palm trees alongside the Sarawak coat of arms at left. The bold central panel reads TEN DOLLARS, flanked by ornamental borders, with Jawi script along the upper border and Chinese characters at the foot; the Treasurer of Sarawak's signature appears beneath the date and serial number. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is printed entirely in red and centres on a large circular guilloche medallion enclosing a vignette of the Government residential building in Kuching, set within an ornate radiating frame. The inscription THE GOVERNMENT OF SARAWAK arcs around the upper and lower portions of the medallion, while denomination numerals 10 occupy decorative cartouches at either side, with intricate geometric and floral border ornaments filling the corners. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Sarawak's paper currency was issued not by a central bank but by the personal government of the Brooke Rajah — a dynastic arrangement unique in the colonial world. Charles Vyner Brooke, third and final White Rajah, presided over this series through a decade of relative stability that ended abruptly with the Japanese occupation in December 1941. Notes issued late in the 1929–1940 range had extraordinarily short working lives.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced the series in London to a high security standard, but many surviving examples show tropical foxing and humidity damage consistent with storage conditions in Borneo. The Japanese administration rendered all Brooke-era currency void, and post-liberation attempts at exchange were only partially honored.