1 Yuan Asian Games - Archery

China issued a commemorative series for the 1990 Beijing Asian Games — the first time the country had hosted the event — across multiple denominations and metals. The copper-nickel clad steel pieces like this one were the circulating tier of that series, struck in quantities large enough to see genuine everyday use rather than immediate absorption by collectors. Beijing's hosting of the Games carried considerable political weight for the PRC, coming just over a year after the Tiananmen Square crackdown had strained China's international standing.

The archery subject falls within the individual sport subset of the series, which covered disciplines ranging from track events to martial arts.