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100 Dollars Japanese Government
| Issuer | Japanese Government (Malaya) |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS 100 大日本帝国政府 MA |
| Reverse description | Printed in dark olive-green over a fine engine-turned guilloche underprint, the reverse centres on a rectangular vignette of a tropical riverside scene with palm trees and a building reflected in water, flanked by ornate rosette frames each bearing the numeral '100'. The large diagonal numeral '100' appears at lower left, with arabesque border ornamentation enclosing the full composition. |
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The Japanese Military Administration issued this note for circulation in occupied Malaya and British Borneo following the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Printed entirely in Japan with no serial numbers and no signatures, the series was designed to be untraceable — a deliberate policy that made counterfeiting by Allied forces straightforward. The British Special Operations Executive and the American OSS both ran operations producing fake Malayan Military currency in quantity, flooding occupied territories to destabilize the local economy.
Referred to locally as "banana money" — a nickname shared across the broader Japanese occupation currency series — these notes depreciated catastrophically through the occupation years. By 1945 the 100 Dollar denomination was effectively worthless in daily commerce.