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2 Dollars purple
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore |
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| Year | 1991-1998 |
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| Printer | Harrison & Sons Limited, High Wycombe, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette depicts an intaglio-engraved tongkang (Chinese junk) under full sail on choppy waters, with a smaller cargo sampan in the foreground and seabirds in flight against a large guilloche sun disc. The Singapore coat of arms appears at upper left within a pink and red fine-line underprint, with the denomination 'TWO DOLLARS' in large bold letters at lower left. The name 'TONGKANG' is inscribed below the serial number at left, and the legal tender clause with the Minister for Finance's manuscript signature and red chop appear at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | MAJULAH SINGAPURA SINGAPORE $2 SINGAPURA 新加坡 சிங்கப்பூர் SINGAPORE TONGKANG This note is legal tender TWO DOLLARS MINISTER FOR FINANCE |
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Harrison & Sons printed Singapore's BCCS series from the late 1960s onward, and by the time this issue was running in the 1990s the relationship was well into its third decade — one of the longer continuous printing partnerships in Southeast Asian banknote history. The purple 2-dollar denomination was a fixture of everyday Singaporean commerce throughout this period, the kind of note that wore out fast in wallet use.
The BCCS itself was dissolved in 2002 when the Monetary Authority of Singapore absorbed its currency-issuing functions, making all notes under this authority a closed series by definition.