Catalog
50 Ringgit
| Issuer | Bank Negara Malaysia |
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| Year | 1976-1981 |
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| Currency | Ringgit (1967-date) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Rahman portrait, visible in the blank rosette area on the left side of the note when held to light. |
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| Comments |
Bradbury Wilkinson held the Bank Negara contract through much of the early independence period, and this series was among their last major Malaysian commissions before the relationship shifted to other suppliers. The firm's intaglio work from this period is technically accomplished — their New Malden facility was producing some of the most dimensionally consistent currency printing in the Commonwealth at the time.
The P#16 series spans a five-year window that coincided with Malaysia's rubber and tin export boom, when the ringgit was genuinely strong against regional currencies. A fifty-ringgit note carried real purchasing weight in 1976.