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10 Ringgit Diamond Jubilee National Registration Department

Issuer Bank Negara Malaysia
Year 2024
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Value 10 Ringgit
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Obverse description The upper field bears the legend JUBLI INTAN JABATAN PENDAFTARAN NEGARA, commemorating the 75th Diamond Jubilee of the National Registration Department (JPN). To the left, a series of silhouetted figures representing Malaysian citizens across various age groups symbolises JPN's core mandate in registering the milestones of individual life. On the right, a stylised arrangement of folders illustrates the breadth and diversity of population records maintained by JPN since 1948, affirming its role as the nation's leading civil registry authority. A stylised iris motif, rendered in the coin's central field, embodies JPN's digitalisation initiatives in alignment with the National Digital Identity Plan 2020, evoking themes of biometric identity and technological transformation.
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Edge Plain
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Malaysia's National Registration Department (Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara) was established in 1948 under British colonial administration primarily to manage identity documentation during the Malayan Emergency — a counterinsurgency measure as much as a civil one. The department's function shifted considerably after independence, becoming the backbone of the national MyKad system introduced in 2001, which consolidated identity, driving, and health data onto a single chip-based card and was among the first such integrated national ID systems deployed at scale anywhere in Southeast Asia.

Sixty years of that institutional history is a narrow subject for a commemorative issue, and Bank Negara has kept the mintage figures for this series correspondingly tight.

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