5 Dollars - Elizabeth II

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.