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10 Dollars Year of the Ox
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1967-date) |
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| Obverse description | The arms of Singapore occupy the central field, depicting a shield charged with a crescent moon and five five-pointed stars, supported on the dexter by a lion and on the sinister by a tiger, both rampant, above a stylised wave base. A ribbon below the shield bears the national motto MAJULAH SINGAPURA. The date 1985 appears in the lower field beneath the arms. The peripheral legend reads SINGAPURA in Latin script at the top, flanked by the name of the country in Chinese characters (新加坡) to the upper right and Tamil script (சிங்கப்பூர்) to the upper left, with SINGAPORE in Latin script at the base. |
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| Mintage | 1985 - - 307,000 |
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Singapore's Lunar New Year commemorative series was administered by the Board of Commissioners of Currency, a body established at independence in 1967 to manage the transition away from the shared Malaya and British Borneo dollar. The 1985 Ox issue arrived during a year of particular economic significance — Singapore was approaching its first recession since independence, with GDP contracting sharply in 1985 for reasons rooted in construction overcapacity and a collapse in electronics export demand.
Copper-nickel strikes of this type saw considerably wider distribution than their silver and gold counterparts, placing them firmly in the gift and collector market rather than any ceremonial reserve context.