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1 Cent Silver Proof Issue
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1967-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bold modernist composition depicting two iconic Singaporean landmarks in stylised relief: a multi-storey open-framework building or car park structure occupying the left portion of the field, and an ornamental fountain with radiating jets of water rising from a basin at the right. Abstract wave motifs appear in the background field, evoking the maritime character of the city-state. The design, characteristic of Stuart Devlin's highly textured proof coinage work, employs contrasting frosted and mirror-polished surfaces to dramatic effect. No inscriptions appear on the reverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Singapore's cent denominations were effectively dead currency by 1981 — the one-cent coin had become economically marginal in everyday transactions, making the proof silver striking purely a collector artifact with no monetary function intended. The Board of Commissioners of Currency, established at independence in 1967, issued these proof sets largely to satisfy the substantial collector demand that Singapore's early coinage had generated among Commonwealth numismatists.
KM#1b is the silver proof variant of the original circulation type first introduced in 1967.