RM10 — Ten Ringgit
The artwork
Front: Tuanku Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong, in full dress uniform beneath a tengkolok — the portrait carried on every Malaysian note. The value is given only in Malay, "WANG KERTAS INI SAH DIPERLAKUKAN DENGAN NILAI SEPULUH RINGGIT", above the governor's signature and the title GABENOR. A songket-patterned panel runs down the centre, with an eight-point rosette left and a large engraved bird-form ornament along the foot.
Back: The Kuala Lumpur railway station, captioned "STESEN BESAR KERETAPI TANAH MELAYU KUALA LUMPUR" — A.B. Hubback's 1910 Indo-Saracenic pile of onion domes, chattris and horseshoe arches, engraved in warm red. Top left, the Bank Negara kijang, the barking deer taken from an old Kelantan coin, set in a guilloche rosette; bottom right, sprays of bunga raya, the hibiscus national flower, in red and green. 1983 onward.
In circulation
The third series, introduced in 1983–84 and printed through the following decade, was the workhorse Malaysian money of the 1980s and early 1990s. From the mid-1990s the fourth series, with its wider portrait panel and heavier security thread, took over the ten-ringgit denomination, and notes of this design were gradually withdrawn from circulation.
Details
- IssuerBank Negara Malaysia
- CurrencyRinggit (RM)
- DenominationTen Ringgit
- Collectedon the Malaysia journey, 1993
- SeriesThird series (1983–84 design)
- SignatureGovernor ("GABENOR"), single signature at centre
- WatermarkPortrait of Tuanku Abdul Rahman
- SecurityTwo-letter serial prefix, SK9653715, printed twice on the face