300 Ngultrums Year of the Ox

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.