Propaganda Issue Note ( Type ll ) British propaganda parody of the Malayan 10 dollar (Type II) The British were also active in the Far East. The British military commander, General Percival, had surrendered Singapore on 15 February 1942. The Japanese issued currency for occupied Malaya and this was used until the end of the war. The British produced a propaganda parody of the Malayan 10 dollar Japanese invasion money. The note bears the code SMA/39. It is believed that the note was printed by the British Army’s Psychological Warfare Division in Calcutta and dropped in late 1944 or early 1945 by aircraft of the 231st Wing of the Royal Air Force over Malaya and Singapore. I first wrote about this propaganda banknote in “Propaganda currency of the Far East,” Whitman Numismatic Journal, April 1968. The British parody is a fair imitation of the genuine note. The vignette is identical, if not quite as sharp and crisp. The major difference on the front of the parody is that there is a diagonal propaganda message in Malayan that reads, “Japanese money is about to become dead together with the Japanese.” The banknote front is printed in a dark (Prussian) blue; size 162x76 mm. The “I” in “MATI” lies below the “N” in “WANG”
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