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10 Dollars Year of the Rat
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | SINGAPURA சிங்கப்பூர் 新加坡 1996 SINGAPORE (Translation: Singapore) |
| Reverse description | A stylized rat rendered in a traditional Chinese folk-art manner, depicted seated and facing left, with decorative patterning across its body. The central figure is surrounded by an ornate composition of auspicious botanical motifs including wheat ears, leafy branches, and cloud scrolls filling the field. The two Chinese seal-script characters 丙子, denoting the cyclical year of the Rat in the traditional Chinese calendar, appear to the upper left, while the denomination $10 is inscribed in the lower portion of the field. |
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Singapore's lunar series coins were issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore beginning in the late 1970s, with the copper-nickel strikes intended for circulation while silver and gold versions served the collector market. The 1996 Rat issue falls in the seventh cycle of the twelve-year sequence, the MAS having committed to producing a coin for each animal well before 1996 arrived.
The Rat holds the first position in the Chinese zodiac, its primacy traced to a classical folk story in which it outsmarted the Ox to win the race ordered by the Jade Emperor.