Comments on: Square Dots on Money

By: Wei Jie

Wei Jie — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:34:23 +0000

The: Thanks for reading! So far, these dots are a relatively new security feature which is used for authentication by MAS.

By: The

The — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:00:36 +0000

I was curious after reading this article. At first I thought you were referring to the Braille dots. They are still there — two round dots on the obverse side of the note.

So I took out the pieces of $10 notes in my wallet, and lo and behold, on the reverse side, this is what I found — some with no dots, some with one triangular dot, some with two triangular dots, some with one square dot and some with two square dots.

By: Wei Jie

Wei Jie — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 05:12:56 +0000

David Lee: That’s the 2004 trial issue for polymer notes. Only 10 million notes were printed in this issue signed by then MAS Chairman Lee Hsien Loong. The colour of the denomination is different because of technology limitations at that point in time, in terms of producing polymer banknotes.

By: David Lee

David Lee — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:03:13 +0000

I have an even stranger $10 polymer note.

It was signed by Lee Hsien Loong, without any dots on the back. On top of it, there are a couple of subtle differences, the colour of the “10″ in the middle is purplish instead of the usual brown, and the serial number stating with “8AA8…” has first 3 digits/alphabet of the same font and starts increasing from the 4th, which is different from the usual where the first 4 digits/alphabet all have the same font.

By: Aidan Work

Aidan Work — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:40:18 +0000

Wei Jie,
The banknote & coin cataloguers in both Malaysia & Singapore will have a real field day to catalogue all these new & previously unreported banknote varieties.

The team at Krause Publications needs to be given a huge wake-up,as there are a lot of notes from the Malay states,plus the Straits Settlements & the Sungei Buloh Settlement leprosarium that aren’t even listed in the Pick catalogues at all.

Do you agree with me on this?

Aidan.

By: Polymat

Polymat — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:30:04 +0000

thank you for this info my friend, cheers thomas

By: Wei Jie

Wei Jie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:29:53 +0000

Anonymous: Thanks for the information!

Since last Saturday, the new $100 banknotes were dispensed from selected Citibank ATM machines.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:27:36 +0000

One correction : Dots also have appeared on paper banknotes. $100 and $1000 banknotes have been released with Goh Chok Tong’s signature and MAS imprint.