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80 Dollars Year of the Ox
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The national emblem of Singapore is displayed centrally, featuring a lion and a tiger flanking a shield, surmounted by a crescent moon and five stars. The date 2021 appears beneath the emblem. The legend SINGAPORE encircles the design in all four official languages of Singapore: English, Malay (SINGAPURA), Tamil (சிங்கப்பூர்), and Chinese (新加坡), inscribed along the four sides of the rectangular format. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.