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1000 Ringgit
| Issuer | Brunei Currency and Monetary Board |
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| Year | 1989-1991 |
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| Size | 182 x 90 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah I in full military uniform at right, set against a green guilloche underprint with intricate geometric patterns. The denomination "SERIBU RINGGIT" is printed in large red letters at center, flanked by ornate vignettes including a traditional watercraft scene at lower left. The heading "NEGARA BRUNEI DARUSSALAM" appears across the top in red letterpress, with bilingual legal tender text in Malay and English below the central inscription. |
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| Reverse description | Central panoramic vignette of Kampong Ayer, the traditional water village, and the Istana Nurul Iman palace complex rendered in green and blue intaglio, set within elaborate guilloche borders with traditional Bruneian decorative motifs. The denomination "$1000" appears at upper left and "1000" at upper right in brown letterpress, with the state arms vignette visible at upper left. "NEGARA BRUNEI DARUSSALAM" is inscribed in a panel across the lower portion of the note. |
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The Brunei 1000 Ringgit is among the highest-denomination notes ever issued by the Board, and the series it belongs to — the 1967 Orchid series continued through later decades — maintained an unusually long run compared to neighboring ASEAN issuers who cycled through designs far more frequently. Brunei's currency peg to the Singapore dollar, formalized through the 1967 Currency Interchangeability Agreement, meant these high-value notes had practical cross-border utility that most comparably denominated notes in the region did not.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement across virtually the entire history of Bruneian note production reflects the enduring British administrative connection well beyond independence in 1984.