100 New Dollars Year of the Rooster

Taiwan's lunar series commemoratives of this period were issued under quietly fraught political circumstances — the Central Bank of the Republic of China continued minting sovereign coinage at a moment when the island's international legal status was being actively contested in cross-strait negotiations. The rooster year fell squarely in the middle of Chen Shui-bian's second term, a period of pronounced tension with Beijing following his 2004 re-election.

Struck to one troy ounce in .999 fine silver, this is a bullion-adjacent commemorative with a mintage controlled tightly enough that secondary market premiums have held.