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5 Dollars Year of the Rat
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a naturalistic effigy of a rat, rendered in fine detail against a lightly textured background evoking a traditional landscape with stilted structures, referencing the Chinese zodiac Year of the Rat. The rat is shown in profile, facing left, in the central field. The inscription 1 TROY OZ 999 FINE SILVER arcs across the upper border, while the denomination $5 appears prominently in the lower right field. The overall composition is framed by the octagonal coin format with a plain polished border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Singapore's lunar series coins are legal tender issued by MAS but produced primarily for the collector market, a practice the authority has maintained since the 1980s. The Rat opens the twelve-year zodiac cycle, and the 2020 issue coincided with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — a year that lent the rat's association with plague and pestilence an uncomfortable topicality that no mint planner anticipated.