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10 Dollars 'Opportunities for All'
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Size | 141 × 69 mm |
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| Obverse description | A silver-red vertical stripe at left bears the Singapore Coat of Arms alongside the commemorative inscriptions 'SG50' and '1965 2015', marking the nation's 50th anniversary of independence. A lion silhouette and a vignette of the Vanda Miss Joaquim orchid, Singapore's national flower, appear in the central field. A portrait of Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore, is positioned at right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a multicolour composite vignette illustrating diverse facets of Singaporean society and opportunity: a football coach with players, a construction worker reviewing blueprints, a dancer, a scientist with laboratory glassware, a chef in toque stirring a wok, a boy in a wheelchair alongside girls, a financial trader at a keyboard with stock-market monitors, and a teacher indicating Singapore on a globe. |
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Part of the Portrait Series, which the Monetary Authority of Singapore launched in 1999 and has continued issuing in updated commemorative forms since. The polymer substrate on this denomination was adopted specifically for durability in Singapore's high-humidity climate — the same reasoning that drove Australia's pioneering switch in 1988, which MAS studied closely before committing to the material for smaller circulating denominations.
The "Opportunities for All" title marks this as a commemorative release tied to Singapore's SG50 jubilee program, not a standard circulation print run. Issued in 2015 for the nation's fiftieth anniversary of independence.