Brunei dollar

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The Brunei dollar is the official currency of Brunei Darussalam, issued by the Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam and maintained at parity with the Singapore dollar under a longstanding currency interchangeability agreement.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form As subject As object
Ringgit Brunei 0 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf currency
fiat currency
centralBank Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam
country Brunei Darussalam
currencyInterchangeabilityAgreementSince 1967
currencyInterchangeabilityAgreementWith Singapore
dateOfIntroduction 1967
denominationType banknotes
coins
exchangeRatePolicy maintained at parity with the Singapore dollar
freelyConvertibleWith Singapore dollar
hasAlternativeName Brunei dollar
surface form: Ringgit Brunei
hasFeature interchangeability at par with Singapore dollar banknotes and coins
hasSecurityFeatures holographic elements
security threads
watermarks
ISO4217Code BND
isPartOf Brunei’s monetary system
issuerType sovereign state
issuingAuthority Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam
languageOnCurrency English
Malay
legalTenderIn Brunei Darussalam
linkedCurrency Singapore dollar
localAbbreviation BND$
localName Brunei dollar self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ringgit Brunei
monarchFeaturedOnBanknotes Hassanal Bolkiah
surface form: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
monetaryAuthorityEstablished Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam
monetaryAuthorityEstablishedYear 2011
monetaryPolicyRegime currency peg to Singapore dollar
monetarySystem decimal
officialCurrencyOf Brunei Darussalam
peggedTo Singapore dollar
previousMonetaryAuthority Brunei Currency and Monetary Board
region Southeast Asia
regionCode BN
replacedCurrency Malaya and British Borneo dollar
status active currency
subunit sen
subunitToUnit 100 sen = 1 Brunei dollar
symbol $
typicalBanknoteDenominations 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000 dollars
typicalCoinDenominations 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 sen
usedAlongside Singapore dollar (in practice, in some Brunei transactions)
usedFor cross-border trade with Singapore
domestic transactions in Brunei Darussalam
usedIn Brunei Darussalam
Singapore dollar
surface form: Singapore (under interchangeability agreement, not legal tender)

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Brunei British protectorate currency Brunei dollar
Brunei Darussalam currency Brunei dollar
Hassanal Bolkiah currencyOfRealm Brunei dollar
Brunei dollar hasAlternativeName Brunei dollar
this entity surface form: Ringgit Brunei
Brunei dollar localName Brunei dollar self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ringgit Brunei