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1000 Pounds - Elizabeth II Year of The Ox, Gold Proof
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Thickness | 10.5 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A finely sculpted ox is depicted in left profile, head lowered in a grazing posture, rendered in high relief with naturalistically detailed musculature and texture. The animal stands upon a gently sloping ground line adorned with delicate snowdrop flowers in the foreground, with a blossoming tree to the left and a bare tree and rolling countryside to the right, evoking an English pastoral setting with subtle East Asian artistic sensibility. The Chinese character 牛 (Ox) appears prominently above the central device, flanked by the curved legend YEAR OF THE OX to the upper left and the date 2021 to the upper right. The engraver's initials HB for Harry Brockway are discreetly placed in the lower right field. |
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The Royal Mint's 100mm, kilogram-plus gold pieces occupy a curious commercial niche — legal tender face values assigned to bullion objects worth many times the stated amount, a technicality that satisfies British currency law without pretending to function as money. The Ox series entry is part of the Shengxiao lunar programme the Mint has issued continuously since 2014, tracking the twelve-year Chinese zodiac cycle primarily for the Asian collector and investment market.
The 2021 Ox year coincided with production disruptions across the global precious metals minting industry caused by COVID-19 supply chain pressures, which constrained output on several Royal Mint high-kilo pieces that year.