Singapore Orchid Specimen Banknotes Worthless??

On 19March 1977, this article appeared in the local newspaper....

                                                                            (extracts from The Straits Times)

Almost twelve years later, this brochure was handed out at the annual Singapore coin show........

thus putting a monetary value for all Singapore Specimen banknotes.

At a recent auction, the Specimen Orchid series album and the Bird series fetched more than S$2500 and S$2000 respectively.

My other modern era Specimen Notes.........

(ex-Spinks Singapore, 24th June 2000)

 

To add closure to this article, the thief was finally caught a few months later and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and in mitigation he said he was tempted and thought that he could use the money.