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50 Dollars grey
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central intaglio vignette presents the coaster vessel 'Perak' against a guilloche underprint in shades of red and blue, with the Singapore coat of arms in the upper left corner and the country name inscribed along the top in English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil. The denomination '$50' appears in the upper right, while 'FIFTY DOLLARS' is rendered in bold letterpress at the lower right, accompanied by the facsimile signature of the Minister for Finance and the legal tender inscription. |
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| Reverse lettering | $50 SINGAPORE BENJAMIN SHEARES BRIDGE THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED |
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The Singapore orchid series, of which this note is part, ran from 1967 through to the late 1990s and represents an unusually long-lived design family for a rapidly modernizing economy. By 1994, most regional central banks had long since moved toward polymer or heavily windowed security threads, making this paper issue with a simple watermark a noticeably conservative specification for the denomination and the era.
Thomas De La Rue's Singapore relationship dated back to the Board of Commissioners of Currency, well before the Monetary Authority formally assumed note issuance. The grey $50 was eventually superseded by the Portrait series beginning in 1999.