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50 Dollars - Hassanal Bolkiah Sultan's 50th Birthday
| Issuer | Brunei Currency and Monetary Board |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Colorized portrait of Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah facing slightly left, depicted in military dress uniform adorned with decorations and insignia, wearing a traditional Bruneian songkok headdress with gold trim. The effigy occupies the central field against a mirror-polished black background. The legend SULTAN HAJI HASSANAL BOLKIAH arcs along the upper periphery in raised Latin characters, while an Arabic script signature of the Sultan appears in the lower field beneath the portrait. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hassanal Bolkiah turned fifty in 1996 as one of the wealthiest heads of state on earth, with Brunei's oil revenues having made him, by some estimates of the period, the richest individual in the world. The birthday celebration was characteristically extravagant — the official festivities reportedly cost in excess of $16 million.
The .917 fineness places this squarely in the 22-karat crown gold tradition, the same standard used for British sovereigns. At 31.10 grams, the specification mirrors a troy ounce, a deliberate choice for a state acutely conscious of commodity benchmarking.