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| Issuer | Government of the Straits Settlements |
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| Year | 1925-1927 |
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| Reference(s) | P#13 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette of a tiger in a landscape enclosed within an oval guilloche frame, surmounted by a portrait of King George V in an oval medallion at the upper centre. The denomination "100 Dollars" appears in ornate panels at lower left and right, with Chinese script border text running along the top and sides. The date and three manuscript signatures of the Currency Commissioners appear in the lower centre, with Arabic and Jawi script text along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, visible as a ghosted impression through the paper, shows the mirror image of the obverse design elements including the central tiger vignette, guilloche panels bearing the denomination "100", and the "STRAITS SETTLEMENTS" text, consistent with a note printed in intaglio on thin paper with no independent reverse design. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the paper |
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