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| Issuer | Singapore Mint |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Tamil/Chinese |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Changi Village occupies an odd place in Singapore's national memory — a sleepy kampung-style enclave that survived the postwar urbanization drive largely intact, partly because its remote eastern position made redevelopment less urgent, and partly because the adjacent military base kept commercial pressure at bay. By 2007, the Singapore Mint's ongoing local heritage series had turned to documenting exactly these kinds of neighborhoods before they shifted further from living memory.
KM#259a denotes the silver variant of a base-metal issue, a distinction the Singapore Mint made consistently across this series to capture both the collector and the bullion-adjacent market simultaneously.