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20 Sen - Hassanal Bolkiah 2nd portrait
| Issuer | Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam |
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| Year | 1993-2016 |
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| Value | 20 Sen |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1993 - - 720,000 1994 - - 2,000,000 1996 - - 2,767,000 2000 - - 2001 - - 270,647 2002 - - 597,272 2004 - - 2005 - - 2006 - - 2008 - - 2009 - - 2010 - - 2011 - - 2013 - - 2014 - - 2015 - - 2016 - - |
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Brunei's coinage has remained unusually stable precisely because monetary policy answers ultimately to a single authority — the Sultan himself, who chairs the Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam. The second portrait series, introduced in the early 1990s, replaced an earlier effigy deemed insufficiently formal for a sultan whose personal fortune was then regularly cited as among the largest in the world.
Copper-nickel was retained despite Brunei's oil wealth making a more precious composition entirely affordable — a deliberate choice to keep coinage practical rather than symbolic.