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5 Dollars National Museum
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Weight | 20 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Tamil/Chinese |
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| Mintage | ND (1987) sm - Proof - 25,000 |
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Issued to commemorate the opening of the National Museum's newly renovated premises on Stamford Road, this piece was struck the same year Singapore's oldest museum — founded in 1887 — marked its centenary. The Board of Commissioners of Currency had by this point developed a consistent program of silver commemoratives tied to national institutions, but the museum centenary gave the series unusual cultural weight.
The .925 standard matches British sterling, a deliberate choice in Singapore's commemorative coinage program rather than the .999 fine silver more common among contemporary issues from other Southeast Asian mints.