Catalog
2 Dollars orange
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency Singapore |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company Limited |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a tongkang vessel under sail set against a rising sun, rendered in intaglio on an orange guilloche underprint. The Singapore coat of arms appears at upper left, with the legal tender inscription and denomination in English below. The note carries quadrilingual text across the lower register in English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Singapore's Board of Commissioners of Currency was a transitional authority — established in 1967 after separation from Malaysia to issue currency independent of the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo. By 1991 it was in its final years; the Monetary Authority of Singapore absorbed its currency-issuing functions in 2002. This note belongs to the third and last series the BCCS would ever produce.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement with Singapore's currency ran continuously from independence through this series, an unusually long unbroken contract for the region. The watermark remains the sole security feature listed — modest by the standards of what De La Rue was producing for other clients at the time.