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500 Dollars Year of the Rabbit
| Issuer | Singapore Mint |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1967-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Tamil/Chinese |
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| Reverse description | A highly detailed, finely modelled rabbit is depicted in profile facing left, seated in a naturalistic pose with prominent ears erect and whiskers rendered in relief, occupying the central field against a deeply mirrored proof background. The Chinese cyclical characters 丁卯, denoting the Year of the Rabbit in the traditional sexagenary cycle, appear above and to the left of the animal. The denomination '500 DOLLARS' arcs boldly across the upper field in large characters, while the inscription 'HALF OUNCE FINE GOLD' is placed in the lower exergue. The design is framed by a beaded border. |
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Singapore's Lunar New Year gold series launched in 1967 and ran continuously through the first full zodiac cycle, making the 1987 Rabbit one of the later issues in that founding sequence. The series was conceived partly to capture overseas Chinese diaspora demand — Singapore's mint actively marketed these to collectors in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia rather than treating them as domestic circulation pieces.
The .916 fineness follows the traditional 22-karat standard long associated with Chinese jewelry gold, a deliberate choice to align the coins culturally with the market they were targeting.