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25 Cents Brown print
| Issuer | British North Borneo Company |
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| Year | 1900-1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on plain paper. At left, the coat of arms of the British North Borneo Company with the denomination below; a serial number appears above. The central text panel carries the issuer name, value designation, and a promissory clause in period typeface. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, printed on plain unadorned paper with no design elements or lettering. |
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The British North Borneo Chartered Company was one of the last chartered companies granted genuine governmental powers — including the right to issue currency — operating its territory essentially as a private colonial administration until the Japanese invasion of 1941. These fractional notes filled a practical gap: small-denomination coinage was perpetually scarce in the interior, and the company's trading posts needed something workable below the one dollar threshold.
P#7 ran across two full decades without significant design revision, which makes precise dating of individual examples difficult. The brown printing was applied by a single-color letterpress process, and the notes are prone to toning that can deepen the brown considerably on circulated examples.