CONFUSING NEW MALAYSIAN COINS

THE NEW Malaysian coins with the face value of 5 cents and 10 cents are in silver, and the 20 cents and 50 cents coins are in yellow color. Many people find these coins very confusing and the tendency of mixing these up is very high and frequent.

The problem comes from its size and color. The people always get mistaken between the two types of silver coins with the same color and almost the same size, but their value is one 5 cents and the other is 10 cents. The yellow coins which have almost the same size too, but the value is very much different, with one as 50 cents and the other is only 20 cents. 

The people can get confused because it is not easy to see the difference unless one can really check it out carefully before using it. The coffee shop owners and the shoppers always pay out wrongly, or giving short or extra change to customers. The difference in the value of the coins are big, therefore this also arises in arguments and dissatisfactions. The new yellow coins already are fading in its color, and will become black in color soon, thus this will create more trouble soon.

The Bank Negara Malaysia is the body responsible for issuing the new coins, but it is surprising that they didn’t see this problem. The people are getting into trouble in using these hard to differentiate coins.

This is unlike the previous coins where the 5 cents are smaller and the 10 cents are larger in size and heavier. The 20 cents and 50 cents are very easy to distinguish too. There were no problems, but why suddenly there is such confusing coins being dumped and appearing in the market which gives the people headache. The only answer is that the Bank Negara Malaysia must be wrong in publishing these new coins.

The KK MP Hiew King Cheu has received many complaints during his walkabout in Sabah and many people have said these 4 types of news coins are nothing else but trouble. MP Hiew has checked the new coins personally and found their complaints are very true. He calls upon the Bank Negara Malaysia to retrieve all these inconvenient coins from the market and continue to use the previous coins. It is not understandable why the Bank Negara pushed out the new coins into the market and without doing a careful check and evaluation on its suitability.

This is not only affecting the general people but the commercial bank staffs are making a lot of complaints too, due to the hard to distinguish sizes of the coins when they count the coins. The action and attention from Bank Negara is needed immediately.