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The coins also feature new designs, the one-dollar, now a bi-metallic coin featuring the Merlion, the fifty cents coin featuring the Port of Singapore, the twenty-cent coin depicts Changi International Airport, the ten-cent coin featuring public housing and the five-cent coin featuring the Esplanade. [12]
Aug 22, 2023 · Singapore's Paper Notes. #TriviaTuesday: Take a closer look at any dollar notes in your wallet and you’ll notice that the ‘line’ at the top of a note is a line of micro text. Micro text is commonly found on banknotes to fight against counterfeiting.
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- They lack a security thread. The counterfeit notes, which are believed to be photocopied or printed reproductions, lack certain features found on genuine notes, such as a security thread which is interwoven in the paper running vertically down the face of the note.
- They have no watermark. Fake notes will usually lack a watermark when held up to the light. In the case of genuine notes, a three dimensional multi-tone portrait watermark of the first president of Singapore, Mr Yusof Ishak can be seen when the note is held up to the light.
- Fake notes may have a simulated kinegram. The kinegram - an octagonal reflective foil - found on a fake note is distinctively different to that on a genuine currency note.
- Fake notes lack the feel of an embossed surface. The police say the surface of counterfeit notes may lack the embossed "feel" that genuine notes have.
The Portrait Series of currency notes is the fourth and current set of notes to be issued for circulation in Singapore. It was first introduced on 9 September 1999 by the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore (BCCS), whose role was since taken over by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) post-merger.
May 17, 2023 · Image credit: Monetary Authority of Singapore. To celebrate, the Monetary Authority of Singapore will be issuing the LKY100 – a $10 gold coin bearing the late prime minister’s portrait surrounded by the Marina Barrage, Raffles Place skyline, National Gallery Singapore, and Fullerton Hotel.
May 12, 2018 · Eng, 77, is the designer behind the Portrait Series of currency that we use in Singapore today. Chua, 86, is the artist who drew that portrait of Yusof Ishak -- possibly the most viewed and ...
