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5 Cents - George VI
| Issuer | Commissioners of Currency, Malaya |
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| Year | 1939-1941 |
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| Value | 5 Cents (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing crowned effigy of King George VI, engraved by Percy Metcalfe, with the monarch depicted in a simplified bare-shouldered truncation. The royal crown is rendered in fine detail above the portrait. The circular legend reads GEORGE VI KING AND EMPEROR OF INDIA around the periphery, with the engraver's initials PM visible below the truncation. A beaded border frames the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | ·GEORGE VI KING AND EMPEROR OF INDIA PM |
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Malaya's currency board was established in 1938 specifically to unify coinage across the Federated and Unfederated Malay States, the Straits Settlements, and British Borneo — replacing a patchwork of colonial issues that had frustrated trade for decades. Production of this series at the Royal Mint ran only through 1941, when the Japanese invasion halted everything. Coins already shipped to the region were captured or hastily buried; substantial quantities never entered circulation at all.
The .750 silver standard was chosen to match existing local expectations rather than the .500 alloy Britain was adopting elsewhere in its colonial coinage at the time.