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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore |
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| Year | 1976 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | A vignette of a Red-whiskered Bulbul occupies the left portion of the note against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The Singaporean coat of arms appears above a blank watermark panel to the right, with the denomination numeral '$5' printed below. Bilingual and quadrilingual inscriptions in English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil run along the upper and lower margins. |
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| Reverse description | An intaglio-printed panoramic vignette in green tones presents an aerial view of Keppel Harbour with container facilities, vessels, and industrial structures in the foreground, while cable cars suspended on overhead wires traverse toward Mount Faber in the middle distance. A rosette guilloche pattern appears in the upper right corner, and a second denomination panel with an oval '$5' cartouche is positioned at the lower right. The printer's imprint appears along the lower margin. |
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Singapore's Board of Commissioners of Currency was a deliberate constitutional oddity — an independent statutory body rather than a central bank, reflecting the government's wariness about concentrating monetary authority too narrowly in the years after separation from Malaysia. That arrangement persisted until the Monetary Authority of Singapore absorbed its currency functions in 2002.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled a substantial portion of British Commonwealth security printing through this period from their New Malden plant, and Pick 10 fits squarely within their standard production run for Singapore's Orchid series. The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature — modest even by 1976 standards.