Bhutan's lunar series issues are produced under contract by foreign mints — the Royal Monetary Authority has no domestic minting facility — and are sold exclusively as collector pieces, never entering circulation. The Year of the Boar falls twelfth in the twelve-year Tibetan-Buddhist lunar cycle, making 2019 issues the close of one full rotation before the cycle resets with the Rat in 2020.
Bhutan's lunar series issues are produced under contract by foreign mints — the Royal Monetary Authority has no domestic minting facility — and are sold exclusively as collector pieces, never entering circulation. The Year of the Boar falls twelfth in the twelve-year Tibetan-Buddhist lunar cycle, making 2019 issues the close of one full rotation before the cycle resets with the Rat in 2020.