The Frank Goon Reference Collection of British Malayan Banknotes - Part Two

Board of Commissioners of Currency Malaya, specimen $1, 1 January 1940, serial number A/1 000209, green on multicoloured underprint, George VI in oval frame at right, value at left, red NOT LEGAL TENDER in left field, red SPECIMEN ONLY NO VALUE in right field, Weisberg signature, reverse green, Straits crest at top centre, the 10 arms of the Malay States at left and right, pinholes, in PMG holder 50, about uncirculated, very rare and a key note for Malaya
BNB B101as, Pick 4as, KNB 3b S$20,000-S$26,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Frank Goon Reference Collection of British Malayan Banknotes.

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In 1945 there were concerns that some of these notes (the $1 and $5 of 1940) could reappear in circulation following the capture by the Japanese of the SS Automedonn in 1940. The British Military Government correspondingly overprinted some notes to prevent their being used, and destroyed the million of others left over in 1946.