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10 000 Yuan Year of the Goat
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed, naturalistically rendered goat stands in full profile facing left at centre, occupying the majority of the scalloped field. Behind the goat, stylised decorative elements evoking traditional Chinese auspicious imagery and cloud motifs fill the background. The denomination '10000元' (10,000 Yuan) is inscribed in the upper left field, and the Chinese cyclical year designation '乙未' appears to the lower right, identifying the Year of the Goat in the traditional Chinese calendar. The design is executed in high relief against a polished proof background. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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China's kilogram gold lunar coins occupy a peculiar position in the modern bullion market: they are legal tender at face value but priced orders of magnitude above it, a fiction the People's Bank has maintained since launching the lunar series in 1981. The 10,000 yuan denomination has never meaningfully circulated and was never intended to. Mintage for kilogram issues in this series is tightly controlled, typically in the low hundreds, making secondary-market availability almost entirely dependent on original purchasers releasing inventory.
2015 marks the second Goat year in the series since it relaunched under the modernized .999 fineness standard, distinguishing this coin from its .999 predecessors struck for 1991.