Catalog
100 Dollars BCCS
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency Singapore |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse centres on an intaglio portrait of Yusof bin Ishak, first President of the Republic of Singapore, set against an orange-toned guilloche underprint incorporating a swallow cowrie motif. The Singapore coat of arms is positioned at the upper left, while inscriptions in four official languages — Malay, Chinese, Tamil, and English — together with the denomination and the Chairman's signature of the Board of Commissioners of Currency Singapore, frame the central vignette. Serial numbers appear at lower left and upper right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a composite vignette under the title 'Singapore Youth', illustrating three facets of youth development: at left, uniformed members of the Singapore Red Cross, St. John's Ambulance Brigade, and National Police Cadet Corps represent community service; at centre, scouts engaged in outdoor activities evoke youth in action; at right, a National Service officer in ceremonial dress bearing a sword stands before the tower of the SAFTI Military Institute, symbolising leadership development. |
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The Board of Commissioners of Currency Singapore was a standalone statutory body responsible for note issuance from 1967 until 2002, when its functions were absorbed into the Monetary Authority of Singapore. This 1999 issue falls within the final years of that arrangement — notes continued to circulate freely after the merger, remaining legal tender, but no new BCCS series followed.
P#42 belongs to the Ship series, Singapore's longest-running definitive note family, introduced in 1984. By 1999 the series was well into its mature phase, and security provisions on these later printings remain relatively modest compared to contemporary regional issues.