Catalog
10 Ringgit
| Issuer | Bank Negara Malaysia |
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| Year | 1989-1995 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown, red-orange and violet intaglio printing on multicolour guilloche underprint. Portrait vignette of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Rahman at right, with vertical serial number at left and a segmented foil strip over the embedded security thread. Issuing authority inscription and denomination legend appear across the note face. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red-orange and violet tones on a multicolour guilloche underprint, dominated by a central architectural vignette of the Kuala Lumpur Railway Station (Stesen Besar Keretapi Tanah Melayu), rendered in intricate detail with its Moorish-style towers and arched colonnades. A decorative rosette guilloche appears to the upper left alongside a sambar deer vignette, while hibiscus flowers — Malaysia's national flower — are positioned at lower right. The denomination numeral "10" appears at lower left and the value "$10" at upper right. |
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P#36 represents a transitional moment in Malaysian currency production — the note was contracted out to three separate printers simultaneously, an unusual arrangement that resulted in subtly different printings distinguishable mainly by the security thread specification and minor tonal variations in the ink. BA International in Canada, De La Rue in London, and Giesecke & Devrient in Munich each produced distinct batches, all circulating under the same Pick reference.
Serial prefix ranges can help attribute a given note to its printer, though complete documentation remains inconsistent across catalog sources.