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20 Dollars Singapore Bicentennial
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Size | 162 × 77 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Yusof Bin Ishak, Singapore's first President, occupies the right portion of the note, with a vignette of the National Gallery Singapore — the restored former Supreme Court and City Hall buildings — rendered in the background. The denomination and legal tender inscription are presented in both English and the other official languages of Singapore, integrated within a multicolour guilloche underprint. The transparent window, characteristic of polymer substrate, incorporates security elements within the overall design. |
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| Protection description | Transparent polymer window incorporating optically variable elements; embedded security thread. |
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The Singapore Bicentennial note was issued to mark 200 years since Raffles' 1819 landing, though the MAS was careful to frame the commemoration around the island's broader history rather than treating it as a straightforward celebration of British colonialism — a politically deliberate choice. The polymer substrate was selected in part to allow the transparent window to function as an architectural element in the design rather than a purely technical security feature, which is unusual for a commemorative issue of this denomination.
Pick 63 was released as legal tender, not a collector-only item, meaning genuine circulation examples exist despite the commemorative purpose.