This Bird Series Specimen set is released together with the Orchid Specimen sets at the Singapore International Coin Convention, in 1988 & 1989 (TBC).
A total of 311 sets were issued.
There are six (6) notes in this specimen set: $100, $50, $20, $10, $5 & $1.
For this set of Bird specimen notes, the prefix of the serial number for each denomination is a "S" except for the $5 note which is a "A/1".
Except for the $5 note, all other notes are punched at three spots:
1. Left-hand top corner- dollar denomination
2. Centre- Signature of the Minister for Finance
3. Right- Water-mark
This is a beautiful set of banknotes that captured the changing events and landscapes of Singapore.
The Singapore skyline at the bottom of every note in this series; the map of Singapore in the $50 & $10 note; Changi Airport Terminal 1 and the Concorde jet in the $20 note; the cable car tower and Keppel harbour in the $5 note: they have all been transformed or become non-existent over the tides of time.
For those who walked through the early years of nation building, only you can relate to those events and landscapes, and recall beautiful memories of bygone years that were fortunate enough to be captured permanently and presented in these banknotes.
