Recent Brunei Coins - Circulating or Non-Circulating? [solved]

Brunei introduced new 1, 5, 10, 20 and 50 sen coins in 2017 (only the 50 sen was actually a commemorative), with a non-commemorative 50 sen introduced in 2019. My question is, did any of these circulate? We have dates up to 2021 for the four lower denominations but with mintages only shown for 2017 (and these are tiny). The commemorative 50 sen is listed as having had half a million “distributed to school children”, the non-commemorative 50 sen has two year lines without mintages.

Now that the Central Bank has taken over coin issuing in Brunei, it would be good to determine whether these last Monetary Authority types class as circulating or not. A web search has thrown up suggestions that most of these coins were only issued in sets but it would nice to be sure.

Please post such questions in the Coin information and questions forum. It can gain much more traction there.

I can do that but, since this is a question about potential errors in the catalogue, I suppose the results will have to be fed back to this forum?

Well yes, it is just it is unlikely to get enough views here.

OK, I tried and got this error:

Could the original request be moved over? I assume the system has detected that this question has already been asked elsewhere.

The 2017 coins circulated as did the later dates until 2021.

For the 2022 coins, only the 1 Cent & 20 Cents are listed here & up on Ucoin.

Aidan.

BCNumismatics

The 2017 coins circulated as did the later dates until 2021.

 

For the 2022 coins, only the 1 Cent & 20 Cents are listed here & up on Ucoin.

 

Aidan.

That's not what Ucoin says and it doesn't match the mintages we have for the 2017 coins. Is there some evidence for this? I couldn't find anything on the Central Bank website.

You can simply change one character and post the topic.

OK, that's done. It seems the text and title need tweaking. I suppose it's helpful to prevent spam.

ceh2019

BCNumismatics

The 2017 coins circulated as did the later dates until 2021.

 

For the 2022 coins, only the 1 Cent & 20 Cents are listed here & up on Ucoin.

 

Aidan.

That's not what Ucoin says and it doesn't match the mintages we have for the 2017 coins. Is there some evidence for this? I couldn't find anything on the Central Bank website.

Mine, which are depicted here;

https://en.ucoin.net/gallery/?country=brunei&period=209&uid=155851 .

They actually turned up in circulation.

The 2017, 2019, & 2021 50 Cents turned up in circulation when my boss was in Bandar Seri Begawan on a day trip to Brunei.

The 2017 20 Cents was my most recent addition that turned up loose in a bulk lot of coins fairly recently.

Aidan.

That's more like it. Many thanks. We know half a million of the 2017 50 sen were issued but this is the first indication that more than 3000 20 sen were made that year. I wonder if we can find an accurate mintage?

I've requested an additional year line for the 2017 20 sen, leaving the 3000 mintage for those issued in sets. Hopefuly, more information on the other denominations will emerge.