Catalog
5 Dollars BCCS
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency Singapore |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Size | 133 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | SINGAPURA 新加坡 சிங்கப்பூர் SINGAPORE THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FIVE DOLLARS CHAIRMAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF CURRENCY SINGAPORE SINGAPORE Yusof bin Ishak |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Board of Commissioners of Currency Singapore was a statutory body established in 1967 to separate the currency-issuing function from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, which handled central banking. That separation lasted until 2002, when the MAS absorbed the BCCS and became Singapore's sole currency authority — making all BCCS-issued notes, including this 1999 series, the final output of a now-defunct institution.
The print run of just over 12 million is modest by regional standards for this denomination, and watermark-only security on a late-1990s note reflects the series' positioning as a transitional issue rather than a fully upgraded one.