Catalog
20 Dollars
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore |
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| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | This note is legal tender for SINGAPORE TWENTY DOLLARS YELLOW-BREASTED SUNBIRD MINISTER FOR FINANCE $20 SINGAPURA 新加坡 சிங்கப்பூர் SINGAPORE |
| Reverse description | An intaglio aerial-perspective vignette of Paya Lebar Airport's terminal complex, with its distinctive control tower, occupies the lower centre of the note, set against a fine multicolour guilloche underprint with a large radiating rosette to the right. A Singapore Airlines Concorde supersonic aircraft in flight is rendered above the terminal, with a faint underprint vignette of a golfer to the left; the denomination $20 appears in an oval guilloche cartouche at lower right, with the printer's imprint below. |
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The Board of Commissioners of Currency was Singapore's sole note-issuing authority from 1967 until it was absorbed into the Monetary Authority of Singapore in 2002. Bradbury Wilkinson, operating out of New Malden in Surrey, printed extensively for former British colonial territories and their successor states well into the late twentieth century — Singapore among several long-standing clients.
P#12 belongs to the Orchid series, the first issued after independence. By 1979 these notes were approaching the end of their run, superseded the following year by the Bird series.