Series: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/series.php?id=9887
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- Name (local): Chinese calendar
- Description (EN): (see below)
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Series dedicated to the Chinese zodiac. The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle. Chinese folkway held that one's personality is related to the attributes of their zodiac animal. The twelve zodiac signs are: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.
The series consists of twelve 1 Dollar silver coins, issued by the Mint of Poland between 2014 and 2025. The obverses depict the effigy of the ruling authority or the seal of Niue, and the reverses depict the zodiac animal for the issuing year or close to it, with seven related golden elements.