100 Ringgit - Agong V Prime Minister Abdul Rahman Putra Al-haj

This coin was struck to commemorate Malaysian independence's first decade and a half — specifically the 1971 issue ties to the period immediately following the May 13, 1969 racial riots, which had suspended parliamentary democracy and left the country under the National Operations Council. Abdul Rahman, the nation's first Prime Minister and architect of Merdeka, had by this point been effectively pushed from power, resigning in 1970 under pressure from younger UMNO hardliners who blamed his conciliatory approach for the unrest. A commemorative gold issue bearing his image in this political climate carries an irony the catalog number cannot convey.