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20 Cents
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 1967-1985 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A swordfish (Xiphias gladius) is depicted in profile facing right, its elongated rostrum and streamlined body rendered in detailed relief against a background of horizontal wavy lines evoking the sea. The fish occupies the central field with naturalistic precision, its dorsal fin and lateral lines carefully engraved. No inscriptions or legends appear on the reverse, the design relying entirely on the heraldic marine motif as Singapore's national symbol. |
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Singapore's first decimal coinage series launched in 1967, the same year the nation's currency board was established following the dissolution of the shared Malaya and British Borneo dollar system. The split from the common currency arrangement with Malaysia and Brunei was politically fraught — all three nations had agreed in principle to maintain monetary union, but negotiations collapsed, and Singapore moved quickly to assert independent monetary infrastructure. This series ran nearly two decades before being superseded by a lighter, smaller coinage in 1985.