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10 Dollars
| Issuer | British North Borneo Company |
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| Year | 1927 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black on red-brown underprint, with a central vignette of Mount Kinabalu at upper centre flanked by the company arms at left and a guilloche medallion at right bearing the numeral 10. The promise-to-pay text and denomination TEN DOLLARS are printed in letterpress, with The Treasury, Sandakan imprint and date 1st January 1927 at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the reverse displays a bold diamond-shaped guilloche composition centred on the numeral 10 within a circular underprint bearing the company name, flanked by the repeated legend TEN to left and right and DOLLARS below, with ornate rosette cornerpieces and scrollwork border throughout. |
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The British North Borneo Chartered Company held territorial administration rights over what is now Sabah, Malaysia, from 1881 until the Japanese occupation in 1941 — one of the last privately governed colonial territories on earth. Its banknotes functioned as legal currency within those borders, an arrangement that would look extraordinary today but was entirely ordinary to the Company's administrators in Jesselton.
Bradbury, Wilkinson engraved and printed the entire series to a high standard; the firm had long handled sensitive security printing for colonial administrations and smaller sovereign issuers worldwide. The 1927 date places this note in the middle of a relatively stable interwar period for the Company, before rubber price collapses and political pressures began eroding the chartered model.
The Company's currency authority was extinguished permanently when Japan occupied North Borneo in January 1942.