10 Dollars Year of the Snake, Silver Piedfort

Singapore's piedfort zodiac issues were produced in extremely limited quantities, and the Snake year falls in the middle of the mint's most consistent run of these double-thickness collectibles. The 2001 issue coincides with Singapore's broader push to position its mint as a regional prestige producer — a strategy that included aggressive distribution through Asian collector networks at a time when Chinese zodiac coins were gaining serious secondary-market traction across Southeast Asia.

Pieforts of this type are struck twice to achieve full relief on the thickened planchet.