46. Malaya JIM 5 Dollars with Prefix MA

 

Country of Origin: Malaya (Now known as Malaysia)

Denomination: 5 Dollars

Dimension: 149mm x 71mm

Reference: ST B6a

Category: Japanese Invasion Money (JIM) Notes

Watermark(s): None

Design & Print: Unknown

Extra Note: -

My blog has come into idle mode for the past weeks. Among the reasons of not worth being mentioned here are like busy with studying (really?), absence of camera and scanner services, and and and, lack of $$ to add new collection. Heheh but now I guess I am back.

Due to unknown reason, it seems that Malaya JIM notes has been my favourite items for my collection. I have heard that they are serious JIM collectors out there who aimed to even, completing their prefixes! My only reference catalogue do not even listed their prefixes, they just categorized their prefixes, in block or letters or maybe color variety. Well I guess I just can afford to stick on collecting major varieties of Malaya's banknotes. That is too expensive for me!, but I like the thrill.

I have not yet meet an uncirculated piece of this note. Where the uncirculated non-numbered JIM notes are easy to obtain, the one with numbers seems quite hard to find in the market.

Now targeting on finding her twin, MB prefix. Okay I can afford prefix variety, just for the numbered one. ;)

36. Malaya Japanese Invasion Money ( JIM ) 100 Dollars Rubber Tapper Design

Country of Origin: Malaya (Now known as Malaysia)

Denomination: 100 Dollars

Dimension: 171mm x 81mm

Reference: ST B9a

Category: Japanese Invasion Money (JIM) Notes
Watermark(s): None

Design & Print: Unknown, possibly by The Sounthern Development Bank or Japanese Military

Extra Note: - 

    This is my collection of Malaya JIM note 100 Dollars Rubber-tapper design. This design is a little bit harder to find compare to the usual Village design of 100 dollars Malaya JIM notes. This note is in uncirculated grade with yellow foxing. 

     It is being catalogued that there are two varieties of this note which are the one with whole block letters in red "MA" and whole block letters in black "MA". The latter is valued tenfold of the former by ST. 

    Why there are two designs of 100 dollars? I think this notes were never put into circulation because I am yet to see a circulated one, quite weird for old notes.

24. Malaya JIM Notes $10 Smokeless Variety

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     Have you heard about smokeless ship variety of Malaya JIM $10 Dollar before? I have heard of it before but at first I thought it was maybe due to isolated error or a fake note. But only recently I was quite shocked and interested after I found a seller who described the smokeless due to another printer.

     "JIM  Malaya $10 block MK, scarce smokeless variety. Printed by the American Secret Service(OSS) to finance the freedom fighter, Force 136 during the Japanese Occupation." jim.notes

      American Secret Service funding Force 136 to fight Japanese? That was quite logical but I think that was never included in my History lesson before.

    By the way, is it true? Wonder where the seller get the facts.

 

22. Malaya Japanese Invasion Money 100 Dollars Chinese Characters Overprinted

photo by leocollection

    This is the most interesting JIM banknote that I tried to bid recently. It is an original 100 dollars with chinese characters overprinted at the obverse side of the note. According to the seller, it can be roughly translated as " Go up mountain look for tiger; want to borrow money difficult; if no savings then you are in trouble by Great Japan Malaya Finance Department".

     Frankly I do not understand the meanings of those sentences, can someone enlighten it to me? The seller claimed he do not know the origin or purpose of this banknote.

   It was sold at the price of RM100.

21. Malaya Japanese Invasion Money 5 Cents Block ML-M/AQ Error

photo by leocollection

       This is an error note which was being auctioned recently. It is an ML block note overprinted with block M/AQ on the obverse side. The reverse side is normal.

   I suppose the blocks represent which batches the notes belong too. How these two different blocks come printed together is surely mind-boggling. Apparently this note is valued around RM160 recently for this EF quality paper.

20. Malaya Japanese Invasion Money One Cent Error

photo by leocollection

    Recently I stumbled upon a seller which listed some of very interesting Malaya JIM banknotes. I had try my luck on them since the current prices an hour before time ended were approximately around RM30. But unfortunately I didn't win even one of the auctions, so sad T-T. This one piece ended for the price of $37.95, approximately RM130. Looking back at it, it was quite a reasonable price.

   This is a One Cent note from Japanese Invasion Money (JIM). This note is having reverse print totally inverted on aUNC paper with only light foxing. The block M/AD specifically meant for Malaya. I have seen a blogger showing his piece of similar error note like this in his blog.

  I was in hesitation whether to write a post about this or not, because the notes are belong not to me. Hehe but I think it will be okay as long as I put a line of credit to its owner (ex-owner to be precise) and this post is only for the sake of sharing information.

  This is the least interesting one among the 3 banknotes I found. Stay tuned for next posting.

   Is this a rare note?