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| 表面の銘文 | Board of Commissioners of Currency Malaya This Note is Legal Tender for Ten Dollars in the Straits Settlements and Malay States |
| 裏面の説明 | Central vignette composed of the heraldic arms of the Straits Settlements and the associated Malay States — including Trengganu, Kedah, Kelantan, Johore, Perlis, Brunei, Perak, Pahang, Selangor, and Negri Sembilan — arranged in an ornate shield grouping. The surrounding field is filled with fine guilloche underprint work in complementary tones, framed by a decorated border consistent with the issue's intaglio printing style. |
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The Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya was a joint issuing authority serving British Malaya and the Straits Settlements — an unusual supranational arrangement designed to standardize currency across a fragmented colonial territory. This 1941 issue was printed before the Japanese invasion of December that year, but many notes from this series survived in circulation only briefly before the occupying forces introduced the "banana money" Military Administration Currency, rendering Malayan notes technically invalid under occupation.
Waterlow & Sons had a long relationship with British colonial currency production, and the quality of intaglio work on this series is considered among the finer examples of their Malayan commissions. After liberation in 1945, surviving pre-war Commissioners' notes were briefly legal tender again — an almost unique case of wartime revalidation in British colonial monetary history.