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Postal Order - 1 Dollar Brunei
| Issuer | Jabatan Perkhidmatan Pos Brunei (Postal Services Department Brunei) |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar (1 BND) |
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| Obverse description | Green postal order with 'WANG POS BRUNEI' title across the top and serial number 'BA/2 007709' at upper left and right. The central vignette carries the Brunei postal service winged emblem above a large '$1' denomination. Left panel bears bilingual Malay instructions and the legend 'TIDAK BOLEH NIAGA'; right panel contains payee and issuing office fields with circular date stamp. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Brunei postal orders occupy an odd niche — issued by the Postal Services Department rather than the Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam, they functioned as a payment instrument outside the formal banking system, useful in a country where rural postal infrastructure long outpaced branch banking. Secura Singapore, a specialist security printer, produced a number of similar instruments for Southeast Asian postal administrations during this period.
The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature — modest by banknote standards, but consistent with postal order conventions across the region at the time.