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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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| Currency | Ringgit / Dollar (1967-date) |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah depicted slightly left of centre, wearing a military uniform adorned with epaulettes and decorations, and a traditional Malay songkok-style ceremonial hat with a floral ornament at its side. The portrait is rendered in high relief with fine detail to the uniform and facial features. The curved legend SULTAN HAJI HASSANAL BOLKIAH arcs along the upper periphery of the field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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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.