Catalog
100 Dollars
| Issuer | Government of the Straits Settlements |
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| Year | 1925-1927 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse lettering | THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS Promises to pay the bearer on demand at Singapore ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS Local Currency for Value received |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
The Straits Settlements — a British Crown Colony comprising Singapore, Penang, and Malacca — issued this series through a Currency Commission rather than a central bank, a structural choice that reflected the colonial administration's distrust of locally managed monetary institutions. The $100 denomination was the highest in the P#13 series, used primarily for interbank settlement and merchant trade rather than retail commerce.
De La Rue's production for this series is notable for its relatively restrained security specification — watermark only, no complex intaglio overprinting — which would become a point of concern during the currency reform discussions of the late 1920s.