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1 Yuan 1982 FIFA World Cup, Spain
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The national emblem of the People's Republic of China occupies the upper central field, depicting Tiananmen Gate surmounted by five stars and encircled by a wreath of grain ears bound at the base by a cogwheel. Flanking the emblem on either side are decorative floral sprays in low relief. The Chinese legend 中华人民共和国 (People's Republic of China) is inscribed in a horizontal arc across the lower field, with the date 1982 centered below in Arabic numerals. |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a bold high-relief figure of a football player in dynamic mid-kick pose, his right leg fully extended toward a football positioned at the right edge of an encircling textured ring. The ring frames the player's figure and serves as a decorative border element. The legend WORLD CUP is inscribed along the upper arc within the ring in Latin letters. The denomination 1元 (1 Yuan) is inscribed in the lower central field below the player's feet, combining an Arabic numeral with the Chinese character for yuan. |
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China's 1982 commemorative program marked one of the first times the People's Bank issued coins explicitly tied to an international sporting event — a calculated move as Beijing was actively reconstructing diplomatic and trade relationships following the Cultural Revolution's long isolation. The FIFA series helped signal outward engagement with global institutions, though China's national team did not qualify for the Spain tournament itself.
The brass alloy chosen here was already seeing heavy use in China's domestic coinage reform of the early 1980s, and these commemoratives were struck in limited numbers compared to later Olympic issues.