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10 Pounds - Elizabeth II Year of the Rooster, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 10 Pounds |
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| Reverse description | A boldly engraved cockerel stands in profile facing right, rendered in exceptional sculptural detail with elaborately textured plumage across its breast, wings, and sweeping tail feathers. The bird is depicted amid stylised flowering plants in the lower field, conveying a traditional East Asian artistic sensibility consistent with the work of engraver Wuon-Gean Ho. The Chinese character 雞 (rooster) appears in the upper left field. The curved legend YEAR OF THE ROOSTER arcs along the left periphery, with the date 2017 inscribed at the top, and the engraver's seal mark appears in the lower right field. |
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| Mint | Royal Mint, Llantrisant |
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The 2017 Rooster issue falls within the Royal Mint's Shengxiao series, launched in 2014 to align with Chinese New Year gift-giving cycles and target collector markets in mainland China, Hong Kong, and the British-Chinese diaspora. The year of the Rooster runs from January 28, 2017 to February 15, 2018 by the lunisolar calendar.
Four-nines silver at this weight — just over five troy ounces — places this firmly in large-format proof territory, where premiums over spot are driven almost entirely by mintage caps rather than bullion content.