The Year of the Horse falls in 2026 under the Chinese lunisolar calendar, making this one of the later entries in the Royal Mint's long-running Lunar New Year series, which began attracting serious collector interest after the 2012 Dragon issue sold out rapidly. The copper-nickel circulation-quality strikes in this series consistently outpace production estimates in secondary market demand, largely driven by British-Chinese community purchasing and parallel collector interest in Commonwealth lunar coinage.
The Year of the Horse falls in 2026 under the Chinese lunisolar calendar, making this one of the later entries in the Royal Mint's long-running Lunar New Year series, which began attracting serious collector interest after the 2012 Dragon issue sold out rapidly. The copper-nickel circulation-quality strikes in this series consistently outpace production estimates in secondary market demand, largely driven by British-Chinese community purchasing and parallel collector interest in Commonwealth lunar coinage.