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The Currency History of Singapore


The Currency History of Singapore

(I) Period 1600-1826
a) Local Money
 
(b) Foreign Coins Used in the Malay Peninsula and Borneo
 
(c) Trade Coinages -Portcullis Money (1600 - 1601)
 
(d) First Coin of Singapore (1819 - 1848)
 

II Period 1826 - 1867
(a) Singapore Merchant Tokens (1828 - 1853)
 
(b) First Paper Money of Singapore (1860 - 1936)
 

(III) Period 1867 - 1962
(a) Tokens
  i) Cocos Keeling Islands (1882 - 1955)
 
  ii) Pulau Bukom (Asiatic Petroleum Company 1920 - 1921)
 
  iii) Rubber Export Coupons (1922 - 1941)
 
 
(b) Unofficial Subsidiary Currencies
  i) British North Borneo (1877 - 1941)
 
 
  ii) Sarawak (1840- 1946)
 
(c) Official Currencies of The Straits Settlements (1826-1939)
 
 

British Trade Dollars (1895-1935)

Currencies of the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya (1939-1951)

Japanese Invasion Currency (1942-1945)

Currencies of the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo (1952-1957)

Currencies of the Independent Malaya (1957 -1963)

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Last modified on 19/3/2007