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10 Dollars Mount Kinabalu
| Issuer | British North Borneo Company |
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| Year | 1896-1927 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and red on a guilloche underprint, the obverse centres on a vignette of Mount Kinabalu, with the company coat of arms positioned to the left and the denomination to the right. The promissory text and face value are rendered in letterpress within the central panel, the whole composition framed by ornamental lathe-work borders. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse is organised around a large rhombus-shaped guilloche frame enclosing a circular medallion bearing the numeral '10' at its centre, with the issuer's name arranged in a surrounding circular legend. The word 'TEN' appears in large letters to either side of the rhombus, 'DOLLARS' is inscribed at its base, and ornamental rosettes and intricate lathe-work fill the corner segments. |
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The British North Borneo Chartered Company was one of the last chartered trading companies granted quasi-governmental powers by the Crown, administering what is now the Malaysian state of Sabah from 1881 until the Japanese invasion of 1941. Its banknotes functioned as the territorial currency, backed not by a central bank but by the company's own commercial operations and land revenues — an arrangement that would have looked archaic even by the standards of 1896.
The P#5 series ran across an unusually long window for a colonial issue, spanning three decades during which the company's financial position shifted considerably. Notes from the earlier end of the run are substantially scarcer; surviving examples with legible date stamps from the 1890s command significant premiums precisely because the redemption infrastructure was never systematic.
Mount Kinabalu had not yet been officially surveyed when the first of these notes was issued.