Japanese Occupation one dollar currency note

The Japanese military administration introduced a new set of currency notes as legal tender during the Occupation and adopted the colonial Straits dollar as their standard unit. The local population referred to it as ‘banana currency’ because of the motif of a bunch of bananas found on some of the notes. By the end of the Occupation, the notes were practically worthless.

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