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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo |
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| Year | 1953 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in tiara and pearl necklace at right, within a guilloche underprint border in blue and violet tones. A large blank panel occupies the left half of the note, intended for the official stamp or chop. The date '21st March 1953' appears at lower left, with the denomination '100' numeral repeated at lower right and upper corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | Board of Commissioners of Currency Malaya and British Borneo This note is legal tender for One Hundred Dollars in the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei |
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The Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo was a joint monetary authority — an unusual arrangement covering two separately administered territories, the Federation of Malaya and the three Crown colonies of British Borneo. The 1953 series was the first to bear the portrait of Elizabeth II following her accession, replacing the George VI issues that had circulated through the postwar reconstruction years.
Bradbury, Wilkinson's New Malden facility handled the bulk of British colonial currency production at this period. At the $100 denomination, circulation was limited largely to commercial and banking transactions; retail use was negligible. High-denomination notes from this issuer are consistently harder to locate in any grade, since most passed through institutional hands and were eventually repatriated for destruction.
The Board was dissolved in 1967, with its currency functions absorbed by the separate central banks of Malaysia and Singapore.