Catalog
100 Dollars
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the passenger liner 'Chusan' rendered in intaglio against a brown-tinted underprint with stylised wave guilloche in the lower portion. The national arms of Singapore appear in the upper left, with the denomination '$100' in the upper right and lower left corners. A signature vignette for the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Currency appears to the right of the ship, accompanied by the legal tender inscription. |
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| Reverse description | Aerial bird's-eye view vignette of Singapore Changi International Airport with a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-312 aircraft on approach, rendered against a light multicolour underprint. The airport terminal complex and runway infrastructure are depicted in detail across the central field. Denomination numerals and country name appear in the margins. |
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The BCCS "Ship Series" $100 exists in two distinct security thread variants, and the catalog has generated persistent confusion around them. Notes bearing Goh Keng Swee's signature appear only with the solid embedded thread; the segmented foil strip was introduced later, by which point Hu Tsu Tau had replaced him as BCCS chairman. A pairing of Goh Keng Swee's signature with the foil strip does not exist — the catalog entry flagging this as an error is correct.
Goh Keng Swee resigned from government in 1984, which pins the transition point tightly.