Catalog
10 Sen - Hassanal Bolkiah Independence
| Issuer | Brunei Currency and Monetary Board |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Diameter | 19.4 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The national arms of Brunei displayed centrally, featuring the royal crescent and parasol above crossed flags, a wing, a hand, and a crescent, all supported by two crossed kris and a ribbon bearing Jawi script. The denomination 10 SEN appears in the lower field beneath the arms, with the circular legend KERAJAAN BRUNEI arcing along the upper periphery flanked by ornamental stops, and the commemorative inscription ULANG TAHUN KE 10 KEMERDEKAAN · 1984 · 1994 · running along the lower periphery. |
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Brunei's 1984 independence from Britain came after nearly a century of British protection — a status the sultanate had actively chosen to maintain, twice refusing incorporation into Malaysia. The Currency and Monetary Board, established at independence, issued commemorative and circulation coinage bearing Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's effigy as a direct assertion of the new sovereign monetary order. The 1994 date places this piece a decade into that arrangement, by which point the series had settled into unremarkable annual production.