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5 Dollars 50th Anniversary of Independence
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Thickness | 2.5 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Tamil/Chinese |
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| Reverse lettering | Education, BUILDING OUR NATION TOGETHER SG 50 $5 |
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Singapore's independence in 1965 was not a celebration — it was an expulsion. When Malaysia severed the union that August, Lee Kuan Yew wept publicly at the press conference, and the new nation had no military, no natural resources, and a per capita income that ranked among the lowest in the region. The fifty-year arc from that moment to this issue is the actual subject of the coin, even if the catalog entry only says "anniversary."
The Monetary Authority of Singapore, which serves as both central bank and financial regulator — an unusual consolidated structure established in 1971 — has issued commemoratives at each major independence interval with notable consistency.