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5 Rupees Japanese Government
| Issuer | Japanese Government |
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| Year | 1942-1944 |
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| Currency | First Rupee (1937-1944) |
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| Protection description | Quatrefoil watermark |
| Variants | P#15a - Block letters BA P#15b - Block letters BB |
| Comments |
The Japanese Government rupee notes — issued under the occupying military administration across Burma and the Malay Peninsula — were a deliberate instrument of economic control. Locally circulating currencies were suppressed in favor of these issues, which bore no issuing bank and no promise of redemption, because there was none intended. The printing program was centrally managed in Japan before forward deployment into occupied territories.
Postwar, Allied authorities declared the entire series void. Holders had no recourse.