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| 表面の説明 | Central text in English reads 'THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND FIFTY CENTS', with the equivalent promise rendered in Chinese characters (大日本帝國政府) below. The design is spare and typographic in character, with minimal ornamentation, reflecting the emergency wartime production context of this occupation issue. |
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| 裏面の説明 | The reverse is printed in reddish-brown and composed entirely of intricate guilloche lacework, with two large circular rosette vignettes at left and right each containing the numeral '50', and a central medallion of overlapping lathe-work patterns framed by a scalloped border. Ornamental scrollwork fills the upper corners, and the overall design relies solely on anti-counterfeiting lathe-work with no textual inscriptions. |
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| 偽造防止技術 | ログイン して詳細を見る |
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The term "Banana Money" — universally applied to the entire Japanese Military Currency series for Malaya — derives from the banana tree motif that appeared on the 10 Dollar note, though the nickname quickly attached itself to all denominations regardless of imagery. Japan's occupation administration flooded Malaya with these notes from 1942 onward, deliberately printing without serial numbers on most denominations, which meant no practical limit on issue volume and no mechanism for tracking inflation.
The economic damage was intentional in effect if not always in design. By 1945, hyperinflation had rendered the currency nearly worthless, and upon the Japanese surrender it was officially demonetized — leaving Malayans who had been compelled to accept it with nothing.