Royal Mint Zodiac Year of the Bull

This scarce small rectangular medal was issued by the Royal Mint and placed in a gold proof sets. So if you wanted it, you had to buy a gold proof set and then take it out. We believe they are gold plated rather than gold. Here we offer the 1997 medal for the Chinese year of the year of the Bull. We bought it from someone who actually broke up these gold proof sets. After all, that was the only way to get it...