200 Dollars Year of the Snake

Singapore's Lunar series gold kilo-strikes (this piece is the half-kilogram iteration) are produced by the Singapore Mint under MAS authority and have developed a following among Southeast Asian collectors that outpaces comparable issues from Perth or the Royal Canadian Mint in the regional market. The 2013 Snake year holds particular resonance in Chinese cosmology — the Snake is associated with wisdom and financial acuity, which made this release unusually popular with institutional gift-buyers in Singapore's banking sector during the Lunar New Year cycle.