Catalog
5 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo |
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| Year | 1953 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Board of Commissioners of Currency Malaya and British Borneo This note is legal tender for Five Dollars in the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei |
| Reverse description | Central design composed of the heraldic arms of the constituent territories of Malaya and British Borneo arranged in an organized display, including the arms of Singapore, Perak, Kedah, Pahang, Malacca, Sarawak, Brunei, Kelantan, Perlis, Trengganu, North Borneo, Penang, Negri Sembilan, Johore, Selangor, and the Federation of Malaya. The overall layout is set against a finely engraved guilloche background in green tones. |
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The Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo was itself a political construction — a joint monetary authority created in 1952 to serve both the Federation of Malaya and the British Borneo territories of Sarawak, North Borneo, and Brunei under a single currency. This 1953 issue was among the first produced under that arrangement, arriving just as the Federation was moving toward self-government. Waterlow & Sons had long experience with colonial currency work across the British Empire, though the firm would be absorbed into De La Rue less than a decade after printing this series.