Plastic Fantastic ~ Singapore's Only $50 Polymer

How Singapore started her journey into the world of literally plastic money, starting with these articles from The Straits Times dated June 14, 1990........................................



The long anticipated date of release, July 24 1990,  finally arrived......................

The commemorative note comes with these envelope and deluxe folder:

envelope cover

front of deluxe folder

internal face of deluxe folder

back of deluxe folder

This pamphlet was not issued with the commemorative note but was available over various bank counters...............wonder how many collectors knew about it and managed to collect them too. Could this end up to be a more valuable collector's item than the note itself ? (wishful thinking )

and finally the commemorative notes.......................................................................ta rah!!

Whatttt......................errors already!!!

Yuupp..........look at the notes carefully and see if you can find the error!

(for the benefit of those who hates solving puzzles................................. the commemorative date of  '9 August 1990' is missing in the second consective note.....Major Error I would say)

The reverse face of the banknote:

 

                                    The rest of my commemorative collections:

  

This special serial numbered note was sold in an auction complete with the commemorative envelope and sticker label. 

These are some of the 4.8million pieces meant for circulation............ I wonder where.............NEVER seen any in circulation except............

     What again.......... another major error ........can spot the error?  This time you go spot it!

 

These notes with J prefix were printed as replacement notes(to replace error notes that have been spotted during the printing process and removed before delivery to the currency board).

The peculiar thing about these notes is that almost all have been folded with at least three creases and looks like that have been used around a long time in circulation.

I wonder how come...............does any one have the answer

Wahhhh....even the replacement notes have errors too.....this type of error is called reverse image wet ink transfers.

Another classic reverse wet ink transfers.............................

 this time it concerns the serial numbers appearing on the reverse of this replacement note.

Whew! at last.....................................THE END!


Oh! wait will these be the only plastic Singapore $50 ?