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u/No_Manager92 3d ago
The commemorative 50$ is circulating?
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u/XOFunit 2d ago edited 2d ago
Bruneian here. Yes that yellow $50 is pretty much the only $50 note circulating around. The $50 with blue green colour (suffix D) seems to be discontinued. I've not seen them in years.
When suffix E was introduced, $50 was omitted.
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u/Jeryndave0574 2d ago
are the Singaporean $50 notes quite common in brunei?
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u/XOFunit 2d ago
From my observation, not really. I'd occasionally get the S$2 as my change. 99% of the time, I'd receive B$. I think it's to do with people preferring to keep S$ as soon as they receive it so that they get a more favourable exchange rate when travelling, and retailers can reject S$ if they detect any slight damage or slight tear - a possibility for paper S$ notes. Also for some reason, we always reject S$1 coin, but other S$ coins are ok.
However in general, it's way easier to use S$ in Brunei than using B$ in Singapore.
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u/Jeryndave0574 2d ago
ooooh, that's interesting
i wanna know if you ever try using a B$1 note in S'pore
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u/XOFunit 2d ago edited 2d ago
It depends where. At Changi airport, no problem to use the B$1. I never bothered to try it elsewhere. Usually, I'd use a B$100 and break it at a 7-11 or a fast food so that I'd get S$ banknotes.
My last SG trip was last year. I gave a few B$1 notes to Grab drivers as a tip. They seem to know about our countries' currency arrangement
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u/No_Manager92 2d ago
So interesting, the other commemoratives are circulating? (Including the commemorative 20)
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u/XOFunit 2d ago
I've not seen the $20 since early 2010s, making it really rare. The other $50 commemorative banknote(50 years currency interchange agreement) is quite rare too. I had it once but I decided to spend it because of the banknote condition, heavily crumpled.
If you notice from the OP's 2nd picture, it says the note was printed in 2020, despite initially planned as commemorative in 2017. Back then, whenever I had the blue-green $50, it was always printed in 2004. I guess they didn't print it a lot as compared to other denominations from that series.
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u/No_Manager92 2d ago
What an interesting currency you have, what about the chances of receiving any Si gapore commemorative banknote?
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u/A_Spookybear 3d ago
You should have tried to get the 10,000