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5 Dollars International Year of the Family
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | SINGAPURA சிங்கப்பூர் 新加坡 1994 SINGAPORE (Translation: Singapore) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1994 International Year of the Family $5 |
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The International Year of the Family was designated by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, with 1994 chosen as the observance year following years of preparatory work on family welfare policy. Singapore's participation was hardly passive — the government under Goh Chok Tong had been actively legislating family structure through housing allocation policies and tax incentives that explicitly rewarded multi-generational living arrangements. This coin sits at the intersection of UN ceremonialism and a domestic political agenda that was, by the mid-1990s, already several years old.