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10 Cents
| Issuer | Government of Sarawak |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1868-1946) |
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| Signature(s) | Treasurer of Sarawak |
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| Protection description | SDM monogram combined with a map of Malaya, visible when held to light |
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| Comments |
Sarawak's 1940 fractional currency was printed not by a specialist banknote firm but by the Survey Department of the Federated Malay States in Kuala Lumpur — a cartographic and mapping office pressed into service for currency production, as was not uncommon in British colonial territories where dedicated security printers were logistically impractical to engage for low-denomination notes.
This series would prove short-lived in practical terms. The Japanese occupation of Sarawak began in December 1941, and circulating British colonial currency was rapidly displaced by Japanese Military Administration notes.