Catalog
50 Dollars
| Issuer | Government of the Straits Settlements |
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| Year | 1925-1927 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette comprises a portrait of King George V above a reclining tiger, set within an elaborate guilloche underprint. Denomination numerals appear at the lower left and lower right corners, with the issuing authority legend inscribed across the upper portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS Promises to pay the bearer on demand at Singapore FIFTY DOLLARS Local Currency for Valued received Currency commissioner |
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The Straits Settlements dollar was pegged to the Straits dollar exchange standard, and by the mid-1920s the colonial monetary authorities were managing significant cross-border flows between Penang, Malacca, and Singapore. A fifty-dollar note was not everyday currency — it circulated primarily among merchants, banks, and the larger trading houses that dominated the entrepôt economy. Denominations at this level rarely wore out in ordinary hands.
De La Rue produced the series in London under contract, a relationship the Straits administration maintained through several successive issues. P#12 is among the final emissions before the Board of Commissioners of Currency Malaya began consolidating note-issuing arrangements across British Malayan territories in the early 1930s.