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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.