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| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Tamil/Chinese |
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| Reverse lettering | ANAK BUKIT Urban Villages $1 |
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The "Anak Bukit" dollar takes its name from a constituency in the Bukit Timah area, issued as part of Singapore's ongoing series commemorating housing estates and neighbourhoods that shaped the city-state's rapid urban development. Singapore's Housing Development Board reshaped the island so thoroughly from the 1960s onward that entire kampung communities — including those around Bukit Timah — were absorbed into planned townships within a single generation, leaving names like this one to survive mainly on coins and street signs.