Singapore S$2 50 in 1 Portrait Series Uncut Currency Notes

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This is a limited edition collector’s must-have featuring Singapore’s first President Yusof bin Ishak. Be among the privileged to own The President Notes. The official write-up states: The Portrait series has to strike a balance between simplicity and clarity in design on one hand and sophistication in security features on the other. At the same time the public-recognition security features must be effective and easy for users to recognize and remember. To help meet these requirements, a standard designing approach was adopted across all denominations of the Portrait series. The $2 note shows a group of pupils interacting with a teacher in a "Borderless Classroom". Three prominent institutions of learning are seen in the background. From the extreme right, the institutions are Victoria Bridge School, the old Raffles Institution at Bras Basah Road, and the College of Medicine. Besides being closely associated with the late Encik Yusof at various stages of his life, the three institutions also symbolically represent the ideal educational progression in Singapore, namely primary, secondary and tertiary. Also on the front of the $2 note is the Money Cowrie (Cypraea moneta Linnaeus, 1758). As its name implies, it was commonly used as a form of currency among the communities in the Indian and Pacific Oceans during the past. Humans have carried shells of this particular species to practically all parts of the world because of their beauty and remarkable gemlike shape and handy size. The back of the shell is usually yellow, with a fine filamentous red ring. This species is found in the shallow inter-tidal zone of rocky shores and has a wide distribution in the Indo-West Pacific region Source: Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)