However, the Malaya and British Borneo dollar continued to be legal tender until 16 January 1969.

The currency was also used in the Riau Archipelago in Indonesia prior to 1963, when it was replaced by the local rupiah.

[1] The Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo was officially wound up on 30 November 1979.

These all shared a similar basic design depicting Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse and denomination on the reverse.

All notes bear the date 21 March 1953, and signed by W.C. Taylor, the chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Currency.