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250 Dollars Year of the Tiger
| Issuer | Singapore Mint |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1967-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Tamil/Chinese |
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| Reverse description | A stylised tiger rendered in a traditional East Asian folk-art manner is depicted in the centre of the field, shown in a resting yet alert posture with its head raised and mouth open. The background features decorative cloud scrollwork, bamboo foliage, and bird motifs engraved in the mirror-polished field in the manner typical of proof coinage. The Chinese cyclical year characters 戊寅 (Wu Yin, Year of the Tiger) appear at the upper portion of the field. The denomination $250 is inscribed in large numerals at the lower centre, with the legend 1 TROY OZ 999.9 FINE GOLD along the lower rim. |
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Singapore's Lunar series in gold has been issued annually since 1990, with the Mint producing each year's Tiger strike in strictly limited quantities aimed squarely at the Southeast Asian collector market, where Tiger-year pieces carry particular demand pressure. The 1998 issue landed during the Asian financial crisis — a moment when regional gold coin premiums behaved erratically as currencies collapsed around Singapore's comparatively stable dollar.
The .9999 fineness places it among the purest gold coin issues of its era, matching the standard set by the Royal Canadian Mint's Maple Leaf rather than the more common .9167 used by sovereign-type issues.