10 Dollars "Banana Money" Japanese Government

Features

Issuer	Malaya (British Malaysia)
Period	Japanese occupation (1941-1945)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Years	1942-1944
Value	10 Dollars
Currency	Dollar (1939-1953)
Composition	Paper
Size	160 × 78 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	7 September 1945
Number	N# 203104
References	P# M7 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Obverse

Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera); Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba); Bananas; Pineapple (Ananas comosus) and other tropical plants.

Lettering:
THE
JAPANESE
GOVERNMENT
PROMISES TO PAY TO THE BEARER
ON DEMAND
TEN DOLLARS
府政國帝本日大

Reverse

Scenery with steamship on horizon and palm trees. Guilloche pattern, rosettes and frames.

Watermark

Repetitive re-curved ornaments

Comments

No signatures
Security Thread Absent

Forgeries

During the Japanese Occupation of Malaya The British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and The American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) produced forgeries in order to subvert the Japanese Military in Malaya by inflating the currency

The forgeries can be identified by the following

1. Absence of watermark

2. Absence of smoke from the ship on the reverse

3. Minor design variation on the obverse and reverse

4. Absence of red security threads

Obverse

Left: forgery

Right: genuine

Reverse

Left: forgery

Right: genuine

Complete prefix w/o serial number courtesy of chadlimjinjie

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Date	G	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC		Frequency
Undetermined
ND (1942-1944)							$ 26	P# M7a, Block letters with serial #	5%
ND (1942-1944)	$ 1.10	$ 1.10	$ 1.90	$ 2.40	$ 2.70	$ 3.20	$ 3.30	P# M7b, Block letters MB-MP without serial #, vertical upstrokes and downstrokes of "M" in Block letter	60%
ND (1942-1944)		$ 1.30	$ 1.30	$ 2.10	$ 2.40	$ 2.40	$ 3.70	P# M7c, Block letters without serial #, sloping upstrokes and downstrokes on "M" in Block letter	35%
ND (1942-1944)								P# M7s, specimen with red MIHON overprint	0.08%

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Past sales

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	Katz Auction 147 Lot 271	17 Dec 2024	Undetermined	UNC	Unsold
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	Katz Auction 143 Lot 132	13 Nov 2024	Undetermined	UNC	USD 12.68 (EUR 11.00) (+ buyer's premium) The lot includes several items.
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	Katz Auction 140 Lot 1586	22 Oct 2024	Undetermined	UNC	Unsold
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	Katz Auction 132 Lot 179	17 Jul 2024	Undetermined	UNC	Unsold
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	Katz Auction 121 Lot 305	18 Apr 2024	Undetermined	UNC	USD 5.77 (EUR 5.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Katz Auction 118 Lot 193	23 Mar 2024	Undetermined	UNC	USD 5.77 (EUR 5.00) (+ buyer's premium) The lot includes several items.
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	Katz Auction 111 Lot 128	30 Jan 2024	Undetermined	UNC	USD 18.45 (EUR 16.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Katz Auction 99 Lot 2756	31 Oct 2023	Undetermined	UNC	Unsold
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	Katz Auction 93 Lot 161	24 Aug 2023	Undetermined	UNC	USD 10.38 (EUR 9.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Katz Jubilee Auction 60 Lot 380	14 May 2022	Undetermined	UNC	USD 133.76 (EUR 116.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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