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1 Dollar Balestier
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Thickness | 1.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | The Singapore state arms occupy the central field, depicting a lion head above a crescent moon and five stars, all enclosed within a shield and supported by a lion and a tiger. The national emblem is surrounded by the country name inscribed in four official languages — English, Malay, Tamil, and Chinese — arranged around the periphery. The date of issue appears below the emblem in the lower field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The "Balestier" dollar takes its name from Joseph Balestier, America's first consul to Singapore, appointed in 1836 — a figure better remembered today for the Balestier Road district than for any diplomatic achievement. This coin belongs to Singapore's third portrait series, which replaced the long-running animal series in 1985 and drew on local historical figures to assert a distinctly Singaporean civic identity rather than the colonial or natural-history imagery of earlier issues.
Copper-nickel dollars of this series saw heavy vending machine use, and worn examples dominate surviving circulation stock.