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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in right profile at right, wearing a tiara and pearl necklace, rendered in intaglio. At left, a large guilloche numeral '5' is set within an ornate vignette, flanked by fine latticework underprint in green. The date '21st March 1953' and a signature appear at lower left, with bilingual text in English and Jawi script running along the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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.