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5 Sen
| Issuer | Bank Negara Malaysia |
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| Year | 2011-2023 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | 2012 5 SEN BANK NEGARA MALAYSIA (Translation: 2012 5 Sen Malaysian National Bank) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Malaysia's smallest circulating denomination survived several serious proposals for elimination during the 2010s, with the government ultimately opting to retain it while neighboring Singapore had already scrapped its one-cent coin in 2002. The decision was partly practical — ringgit-denominated pricing structures would have required significant retail adjustment — and partly political, given persistent public resistance to rounding schemes.
Bank Negara quietly shifted production away from copper-clad steel in earlier series to the current stainless steel composition, a cost-driven change common across Southeast Asian mints during the commodity price spikes of the late 2000s.