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1 Yuan Year of the Rooster
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Value | 1 Yuan (1元, 壹圓) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the large numeral '1' rendered in a bold striped relief style at the center of the field, flanked to the left by the Latin inscription 'YI YUAN' and to the right by the Chinese character '元' denoting the denomination. The issuing authority's name, '中国人民银行' (People's Bank of China), is inscribed in Chinese characters along the upper arc. The date '2005' appears in the lower exergue in Arabic numerals. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a traditional New Year scene in folk art style, showing a chubby, joyful child in festive dress standing in the center of the field, holding aloft a lantern decorated with a rooster motif in the right hand and raising the left hand in celebration. A rooster stands at the child's feet in the lower center. To the left, a stack of three traditional Chinese lanterns bearing the auspicious characters '辣', '富', and '福' hangs vertically. The cyclical characters '乙酉', denoting the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese sexagenary cycle, are inscribed to the right. |
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The Chinese Zodiac coin program, which the People's Bank of China has issued annually since 1981, shifted to brass-clad steel for its circulation zodiac pieces well before this date — making this brass composition strike a distinct variant worth noting against the more common steel issues. The Rooster is the tenth animal in the twelve-year cycle, and 2005 marked the Year of the Yi You Rooster, a specific sexagenary designation that recurs only once every sixty years.