10 Dollars Pattern

Singapore's Monetary Authority was established by statute in 1970, the same year this pattern was produced — meaning this piece dates to the very earliest days of the institution's existence, before it had struck a single coin for general circulation. Patterns from this formative period were produced to test designs, compositions, and dies ahead of committed production runs, and relatively few were made.

The MAS absorbed functions previously split between the Board of Commissioners of Currency and several commercial banking authorities. That consolidation happened fast, and early experimental pieces like this one predate the organizational stability that followed.