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One Straits one dollar banknote from 1935 One Straits one cent coin from 1920. The Straits dollar was the currency of the Straits Settlements from 1898 until 1939. [1] At the same time, it was also used in the Federated Malay States, the Unfederated Malay States, Kingdom of Sarawak, Brunei, and British North Borneo.
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The dollar was the currency of the Raj of Sarawak from 1858 to 1953. It was subdivided into 100 cents . The dollar remained at par with the Straits dollar and its successor the Malayan dollar , the currency of Malaya and Singapore , from its introduction until both currencies were replaced by the Malaya and British Borneo dollar in 1953.
The Malayan dollar was issued by the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya, with a hiatus during the Japanese occupation (1942–1945).. The Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya, came into being in October 1938 following the Blackett Report which recommended that the sole power of issuing currency for the various Malay States, including Brunei, and the Straits Settlements should be ...
The dollar again became the currency of Penang with the introduction of the Straits dollar. Between 1786 and 1788, coins were issued in denominations of 1 ⁄ 10, 1 ⁄ 2 and 1 cent (copper), 1 ⁄ 10, 1 ⁄ 4 and 1 ⁄ 2 dollar (silver). Large, tin 1 cent coins were issued between 1800 and 1809, followed by copper 1 ⁄ 2 and 1 cent in 1810.
Despite the introduction of the Straits dollar, the previous local monies were still used with peculiar exchange rates in the earlier days. All the previous pitis coins were called paku (English: piece) where 8 paku were equal to 1 cent or kayu (sakayu). [3] However, officially, 4,000 pitis equaled one dollar. [2]
One Straits dollar banknote from 1935. The Straits dollar was introduced in Brunei in 1906. It was later replaced by the Malayan dollar which was introduced to British colonies and Brunei in 1939. It replaced the Straits dollar at par with a 1:1 exchange rate. The Malayan dollar was issued by the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya.