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80 Dollars Year of the Ox

Issuer Monetary Authority of Singapore
Year 2021
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Reference(s) KM#500
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Obverse script Latin/Tamil/Chinese
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Reverse lettering 1 KILOGRAM 999 FINE SILVER $80
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Singapore's Monetary Authority issued this kilogram silver piece as part of its ongoing lunar series, which has run continuously since the 1980s and remains one of the longer-unbroken official lunar programs among sovereign issuers. The ox holds particular resonance in Singapore's agricultural memory — cattle were still working animals in the island's rural kampong communities within living memory of many current residents, a fact that gives the zodiac cycle an unexpectedly tangible local dimension.

The $80 face value is a deliberate numerological choice: 8 is considered auspicious in Chinese tradition, and the denomination itself functions as part of the gift-giving calculus for which these issues are primarily purchased.

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