In the circulation market, SEN generally refers to Malaysia, but in fact, SEN is not only a country, the “sen” on coins is equivalent to the meaning of “fen”, many countries use it as a token unit.
Brunei, Indonesia, fractional currency units are called SEN, Chinese translation of “fairy”, including Hong Kong, the monetary unit of Japan in the early years of the also have this, because the early Japanese 20 coin money also has the words “SEN”, if there is a “Meiji XX years” and the Chinese character “twenty money” is Japan’s COINS, tokens is cancelled after inflation unit.
Therefore, it is not possible to identify the country of the coin by the word SEN alone, but the pattern and other characters are needed to prove it.
The SEN coin is made of copper-nickel alloy (white copper) with MALAYSIA’s national flower, Hibiscus flower, and the Malay word “BANK NEGARA MALAYSIA” on the front. On the back is a vessel, a traditional Malaysian handicraft.
Before 2004, the official Chinese name of the Malaysian currency was RM0. After 2004, the Malaysian Chinese Language Code Council stipulated that it was RM0 to avoid confusion between the “zero” in “RM0” and the number zero in writing.
At present: 1 Malaysian ringgit is equivalent to about 1.67 yuan, and a Malaysian 20sen coin is equivalent to about 0.34 yuan.
