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80 Dollars Year of the Tiger
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Weight | 1000 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Tamil/Chinese/Malay |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Singapore's Monetary Authority has issued lunar series coins for decades, but the 1-kilogram silver format occupies a peculiar position in that program — too large for any practical circulation role and produced in strictly limited quantities primarily for the regional collector market, where Lunar New Year gifts carrying auspicious denominations carry real cultural weight. The $80 face value is itself deliberate: eight is considered the luckiest number in Chinese numerology, and doubling it compounds the symbolism for a Singaporean Chinese audience that makes up roughly three-quarters of the city-state's population.
The 2022 Tiger year holds added significance as the Year of the Water Tiger, a combination that recurs only once every 60 years.