Katalog
| Emittent | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo |
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| Jahr | 1953 |
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| Referenz(en) | P#3 |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse is dominated by a central arrangement of the armorial bearings of the constituent territories of the currency union, including the arms of Singapore, Perak, Kedah, Pahang, Malacca, Sarawak, Brunei, Kelantan, Perlis, Trengganu, North Borneo, Penang, Negri Sembilan, Johore, Selangor, and the Federation of Malaya, laid out in a symmetrical heraldic composition. The design is executed in multicolour intaglio with guilloche underprint work throughout. Denomination numerals appear in each corner. |
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| Sicherheitsmerkmal | Watermark |
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The Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo was a joint currency authority established in 1952 to issue a common currency across Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, North Borneo, and Brunei — a politically deliberate arrangement intended to smooth the transition toward eventual self-governance while keeping sterling-zone monetary policy intact. This 1953 series was among the first notes issued under that new framework.
Waterlow & Sons had printed colonial currency for decades, and their intaglio work on this series is competent but unremarkable. The real significance is administrative: notes of this type remained legal tender across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously, which created genuine complications when individual territories began breaking away after 1963.