1942 Japanese notes issued in the East Indies, each note bears different obverse and reverse designs but retains similar layouts, with the obverse illustrating plantation crops. Additional 10 dollar notes were printed in 1944. Cents (1942) In September 1942, non-serialised currency notes were issued in denominations of 1, 5, 10 and 50 cents as a response to a shortage of old coins. The cent notes follow a set of standardized designs used for subunit notes across other occupied regions, lacking plantation crops on the obverse with the 50 cent note being the exception (which is identical in design to the half-gulden note in the East Indies). The cent notes are noticeably smaller than dollar notes. 100 and 1,000 dollars (1944–45) Worsened economic conditions in the following years forced the Japanese government to begin printing notes of larger denominations of 100 dollars in 1944 and 1,000 dollars in 1945. The 100 dollar note was redesigned in the 1945 series to accommodate for the new 1,000 dollar note, recycling a majority of design elements from the 1944 100 dollar note. Illustration on the notes adopt more localized imagery, centering around images of rural life. The 100 and 1,000 dollar notes were the last new notes introduced before the surrender of Imperial Japan in August 1945. Complete issue of Japanese invasion money Other Japanese government-issued invasion currencies Japanese government-issued Philippine peso Japanese government-issued rupee in Burma Japanese government-issued currency in the Dutch East Indies Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound See also Japanese military yen Japanese invasion money Footnotes References Publications External links The Global History of Currencies (GHOC) Malaya And Borneo Obsolete currencies in Malaysian history Currencies of Singapore British Borneo British Malaya in World War II Straits Settlements Banknotes of Singapore Economy of Brunei Economic history of Singapore Military history of Singapore during World War II Home front during World War II