$1 — One Dollar
The artwork
Front: The state arms of Singapore — lion and tiger flanking the crescent and five stars, on the ribbon MAJULAH SINGAPURA — sit above a large $1 rosette. The centre is given to a sha chuan, the high-sterned Chinese junk, under full sail and named on a small scroll. The country is set out in four scripts: SINGAPURA, Chinese, Tamil and SINGAPORE, with "This note is legal tender" and a stylised fish at lower right.
Back: All in blue: a spray of orchids on a fine guilloche ground at the left, and to the right the great dish of the Sentosa Satellite Earth Station, labelled as such, its lattice antenna tilted to the sky above the trees and a circular apron of paving. Denomination boxes top left and lower right; the printer's imprint runs along the foot.
In circulation
The Ship series carried Singapore's notes from 1984 until the Portrait series arrived in 1999. The dollar was the smallest note of the set, and it had no successor: the new series began at two dollars, the one-dollar coin having taken over the role. Ship notes remain legal tender.
Details
- CurrencyDollar ($)
- DenominationOne Dollar
- Collectedon the Singapore journeys, 1993–2005
- IssuerBoard of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore
- SeriesShip series (1984–1999); sha chuan junk
- PrinterThomas De La Rue and Company Limited
- WatermarkLion's head
- SignatureChairman, Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore
- Dimensions125 × 63 mm