Catalog
2 Ringgit
| Issuer | Bank Negara Malaysia |
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| Year | 1996-1999 |
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| Size | 130 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Purple and red-violet on multicolour underprint, with a portrait vignette of Tuanku Abdul Rahman (T. A. Rahman) at right against a guilloche background. Ascending-size serial numbers appear on the note. The Bank Negara Malaysia title and denomination inscriptions are rendered in both Roman and Jawi script. |
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| Reverse description | Dominated by a bold intaglio vignette of the Kuala Lumpur Tower at left centre, rendered in deep blue and red, set against a multicolour underprint incorporating a map of Southeast Asia. A communications satellite dish appears at upper centre, and the large numeral "2" in red and blue occupies the lower right, with the "RM" denomination mark alongside. |
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The 2 Ringgit denomination had a short and somewhat awkward run in Malaysian currency history — introduced partly to ease transaction friction at the lower end of daily commerce, it never fully settled into public habit and was eventually discontinued. The vertical signature of Ahmad Mohamed Don, who served as Governor of Bank Negara from 1994 to 1998, dates this note firmly within that window.
The print date of 30 April 1945 in the metadata is almost certainly a data entry error — that date falls during the Japanese occupation of Malaya, years before Bank Negara's 1959 establishment.