Currency: 10 Dollars ‘Banana Money’

Ten dollar ‘Banana Money’ currency.

Issued by the Japanese during their occupation of Malaya between 1942 and 1944. The front of this rare note features a tree bearing fruit, with the obverse featuring a depiction of a ship on the horizon.

Banana money is an informal term given to a type of currency issued by Imperial Japan during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo and Sarawak and Brunei, and was named as such because of the motifs of banana trees on 10 dollar banknotes.

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Title: Ten Dollar ‘Banana Money’
Designer: nil
Type of Graphic: Currency
Client: nil
Publisher: nil
Date: 1942-1944
Dimensions: nil
Technique: nil

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