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25 Cents Red print

Emittent The British North Borneo Company
Jahr 1895
Typ Standard circulation banknote
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Printed entirely in red, the note carries the coat of arms of the British North Borneo Company to the left, with the denomination indicated below the arms and the serial number above. The central field bears the issuer's name and value within a promissory text panel.
Vorderseitenlegende The British North Borneo Company THE TREASURY, SANDAKAN. Promises to pay the Bearer on Demand the Sum of TWENTY FIVE CENTS Value received
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The British North Borneo Company was a chartered trading company that functioned as an actual sovereign government over British North Borneo from 1881 until the Japanese invasion of 1941. It issued its own currency, raised its own army, and administered its own courts. The 1895 fractional notes — of which Pick 1 is among the earliest documented issues — were a practical response to the chronic shortage of small change in a remote territory where coinage supply depended entirely on irregular shipments.

Company-issued paper in denominations below one dollar is genuinely uncommon in surviving form. The combination of tropical climate, heavy use in low-value transactions, and the complete administrative collapse of 1941–1945 accounts for most attrition.