$2 — Two Dollars
The artwork
Front: Yusof bin Ishak, Singapore's first President, in three-quarter profile at the right, engraved in violet with his signature beneath. At the upper left the state arms with the motto Majulah Singapura; the country's name runs across the top in Malay, Chinese, Tamil and English. A large ornamented 2 sits at centre, above THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER and TWO DOLLARS, with a foil patch and the chairman's signature and red seal below.
Back: The education theme, in the same violet. A long colonnaded neoclassical block — the old Raffles Institution — fills the left and centre, with a smaller pedimented schoolhouse and a flame tree to the right. In front, a packed gathering of students of several communities listens to a teacher gesturing from the left; a girl at a desk takes notes. SINGAPORE arches overhead, EDUCATION printed below.
In circulation
The paper Portrait series $2 first appeared in 1999 and circulated widely through the following decade. A polymer $2 in the same design was introduced in 2006 and gradually displaced the paper printing, and the Board of Commissioners of Currency signature here was superseded when currency functions passed to the Monetary Authority of Singapore in 2002. Still legal tender.
Details
- CurrencyDollar ($)
- DenominationTwo Dollars
- Collectedon the Singapore journeys, 1993–2005
- IssuerBoard of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore
- SeriesPortrait series, $2 (paper issue)
- SignatureHu Tsu Tau, Chairman, Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore
- SecurityWindowed security thread, foil patch on the face, embossed dot cluster at the upper right for the visually impaired
- Dimensions126 × 63 mm