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| 表面の説明 | Printed in black and purple on plain paper within an elaborate guilloche border, the note incorporates ornamental corner pieces with numeral "5" devices and foliate scroll-work, with the royal arms vignette at upper centre flanked by the issuer's title in bold letterpress. A large red-purple open-lettered "FIVE" underprint spans the centre field, overlaid by the promise-to-pay text, issue date, and two pairs of serial numbers. Multilingual inscriptions appear in Chinese script along the upper panel and in Jawi (Arabic-script Malay) and Tamil along the lower panel, reflecting the colony's linguistic diversity. |
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| 表面の銘文 | 5 THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS Promises to pay the bearer on demand FIVE DOLLARS at Singapore Local Currency for value received. 2nd January 1914 CURRENCY COMMISSIONERS |
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The Straits Settlements — a Crown Colony comprising Singapore, Penang, and Malacca — operated its own currency independently of the broader Malay states throughout this period. These notes were issued under the Currency Ordinance of 1899, which transferred note-issuing authority from the mercantile banks to the colonial government, a move resisted by Chartered Bank and Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation for years before it took effect.
De La Rue's involvement guaranteed consistent security printing across the lengthy 24-year span of this issue. The series is notoriously difficult to find in used grades, as many examples were damaged by the humidity and salt air inherent to the port environment.