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1 Dollar Aranda Noorah Alsagoff
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1967-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the Singapore coat of arms at centre, featuring a shield bearing a crescent moon and five stars, supported by a lion rampant to the left and a tiger rampant to the right, with the national motto MAJULAH SINGAPURA inscribed on a ribbon below. The country name appears in four languages surrounding the device: SINGAPURA arching across the upper field in Latin, the Tamil script சிங்கப்பூர் to the left, Chinese characters 新加坡 to the right, and SINGAPORE in Latin script at the base. The date 2011 is inscribed in the lower field between the motto ribbon and the English legend. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Noorah Alsagoff was one of Singapore's most prominent Malay philanthropists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for financing mosques, schools, and charitable institutions across the region using wealth accumulated through the Alsagoff family's extensive trading networks. The Aranda orchid series — issued by MAS as legal tender collectibles — assigns each variety to a notable Singaporean figure, making the coin's subject as deliberate a choice as its botanical namesake.
The Aranda orchid itself is a hybrid genus developed in Singapore, where the National Parks Board has long used orchid naming as a form of civic honor.