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20 Dollars
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1967-date) |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of a Yellow-breasted Sunbird occupies the left portion of the note, rendered in intaglio against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The watermark zone is reserved to the right, with the Singaporean coat of arms printed above the numeral denomination $20. Issuing authority inscriptions appear in English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil. |
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| Protection description | Lion's head |
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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 By 1979 these notes were approaching the end of their run, superseded the following year by the Bird series.