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100 Ringgit - Postal Order - Perlis
| Issuer | Pos Malaysia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 100 Ringgit (100 MYR) |
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| Obverse lettering | WANG POS MALAYSIA MALAYSIA POSTAL ORDER BAYAR KEPADA / PAY TO SEBANYAK / THE SUM OF SATU RATUS RINGGIT RM100 TANDATANGAN PENERIMA / PAYEE'S SIGNATURE NO. KAD PENGENALAN / IDENTITY CARD NUMBER TIDAK BOLEH NIAGA CAP TARIKH PEJABAT POS / PAYING OFFICE DATESTAMP CAP TARIKH PEJABAT PENERBIT / ISSUING OFFICE DATESTAMP |
| Reverse description | Plain cream stock carrying bilingual terms and conditions in Malay and English across five numbered paragraphs. Sections cover remitter particulars, payee identification requirements, refusal conditions for altered orders, the three-month validity period, and the one-year enquiry limit. Fields for remitter name, identity card number, address, purpose of sending, and account number appear at top. |
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Pos Malaysia's postal order system in the late 1990s and early 2000s operated under a ceiling that made a 100 Ringgit instrument the highest denomination available — useful for rural transactions in states like Perlis where banking infrastructure was thin and postal orders remained a practical alternative to personal cheques. Perlis, the smallest Malaysian state, had its own issuing point designation, which is why state-specific identification appears on instruments from this series.
Postal orders of this period were printed with security features modest by banknote standards but sufficient for the transaction volumes they handled. Unused examples are scarcer than circulated ones — most were cashed promptly.