250 Dollars Year of the Horse

Singapore's Lunar series gold issues have been produced since 1981, making this one of the longer-running such programs in the Asia-Pacific region. The Mint's decision to strike in .9999 fine gold rather than the more common .999 standard was a deliberate commercial positioning against competing Australian and Chinese lunar issues flooding the collector market in the early 2000s.

The 2002 Horse year falls in the series' third full cycle — a detail that matters to set collectors assembling complete twelve-piece runs.