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10 Dollars Year of the Rat
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 1984 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The Singapore state arms, featuring a lion and a tiger as supporters flanking a central shield, occupies the centre of the field. The national motto and country name appear in all four official languages — Malay, Chinese, Tamil, and English — arranged around the circumference as a continuous legend. The date 1984 is inscribed in the exergue below the arms. |
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| Obverse lettering | SINGAPURA 新加坡 SINGAPORE சிங்கப்பூர் MAJULAH SINGAPURA 1984 |
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Singapore's lunar new year commemorative series launched in 1981 with the Year of the Rooster, making this 1984 Rat issue the fourth in the sequence. The Monetary Authority had initially released the earlier pieces in both nickel and silver, but by this point the programme was well enough established that the nickel strikes were aimed squarely at the domestic collector market rather than export.
The Rat begins the twelve-year lunar cycle, lending this particular issue a minor calendrical significance within the series.