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25 Sen - Agong XII Dugong Manatee
| Issuer | Bank Negara Malaysia |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Composition | Nordic Gold |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts a naturalistically rendered dugong (Dugong dugon) in right-facing profile, its streamlined body shown above a bed of seagrass rendered in fine detail, conveying an underwater habitat setting. The animal's distinctive rounded snout, paddle-like forelimbs, and notched fluked tail are clearly delineated in raised relief against the flat field. The upper legend 'ENDANGERED SPECIES SERIES' arcs around the periphery. Below the central device, two lines of legend identify the subject in Malay and English as 'DUYUNG / DUGONG' and provide the binomial nomenclature 'DUGONG · DUGONG DUGON'. |
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| Reverse lettering | ENDANGERED SPECIES SERIES DUYUNG / DUGONG DUGONG · DUGONG DUGON |
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The "Agong XII" designation refers to the twelfth Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, who held the constitutional monarchy's rotating throne from 2001 to 2006 — Malaysia's unique system cycles the position among the nine hereditary Malay rulers on five-year terms. This coin was issued as part of Bank Negara's wildlife conservation series, a program that coincided with growing alarm over dugong populations in Malaysian waters, where habitat destruction from coastal development and trawling had caused significant declines throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
Nordic Gold — the same copper-aluminium-zinc-tin alloy used in Euro-zone €0.10 through €0.50 coins — was selected specifically for its resistance to corrosion in humid tropical circulation environments.