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| 表面の銘文 | THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT SINGAPORE TEN DOLLARS LOCAL CURRENCY FOR VALUE RECEIVED FOR THE CURRENCY COMMISSIONERS BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO Ld ENGRAVERS, NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND 票銀庫國叻嶼坡 |
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| 偽造防止技術 | Watermark |
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The Straits Settlements — Penang, Malacca, and Singapore — operated as a Crown Colony under direct British administration, and its currency was managed accordingly through London. Bradbury, Wilkinson produced this series using their characteristic recess-engraved printing, which gives the ink a tactile relief detectable even on heavily circulated examples. The watermark, typically the royal cypher or a crown device, was the primary security measure — modest by later standards but considered adequate for a colonial currency that circulated in a relatively small and commercially concentrated territory.
The 1931 start date places the first issues squarely in the aftermath of Britain's suspension of the gold standard in September of that year, a decision that directly affected the Straits dollar's exchange peg.