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5 Ringgit
| Issuer | Bank Negara Malaysia |
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| Year | 1967-1976 |
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| Size | 146 x 69 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah in traditional Malay dress and songkok to the right, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination LIMA RINGGIT appears in large letterpress at centre, flanked by the bank's title BANK NEGARA MALAYSIA at top and the legal tender inscription in Malay below. A rosette vignette bearing the numeral $5 is positioned at lower left, with serial number and prefix repeated at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Bank Negara Malaysia Wang kertas ini sah di-perlakukan dengan nilai Lima Ringgit |
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Bank Negara Malaysia was established in 1959, but the country had been using the shared Malaya and British Borneo dollar until 1967, when Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei finally broke their currency union. This note belongs to the first independent Malaysian series — the "Agong" series — issued the same year the split took effect. Singapore and Malaysia had agreed in principle to separate currencies but retained a currency interchangeability arrangement that lasted until 1973, meaning early examples of this note technically circulated alongside Singapore dollars at par.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled Malaysian printing from the outset of independence. The long print run spanning nearly a decade reflects the absence of any domestic security printing capability at the time.