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300 Ngultrums Year of the Ox
| Issuer | Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The Bhutanese national emblem — a circular device featuring two dragons flanking a central lotus with a jewel, surrounded by a traditional floral wreath — is displayed prominently within an inner circle, flanked on either side by the date 1996. The legend KINGDOM OF BHUTAN arcs along the upper periphery in Latin characters. Below the central device, an inscription in Dzongkha script appears across the lower field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Tibetan |
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Bhutan's Royal Monetary Authority issued a series of lunar year commemoratives through the 1990s largely for the international collector market, with minimal domestic circulation. The Year of the Ox falls in the Bhutanese calendar system rooted in the 60-year Tibetan Rabjung cycle, which itself derives from Indian and Chinese astronomical traditions absorbed into Vajrayana Buddhist practice — making the iconographic choice culturally layered in ways a straightforward lunar commemorative from another issuer would not be.