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10 New Dollars Taiwan's Retrocession
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central design features a stylized globe rendered with a latitude-and-longitude grid, upon which a relief map of Taiwan is prominently superimposed. The dates 1945 and 1995 flank the island in the field, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Taiwan's retrocession. The surrounding legend in Chinese characters reads, beginning at the upper right and continuing around the periphery: 中華民國八十四年 台灣光復五十週年紀念, translating as 'Republic of China Year 84, Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Taiwan's Retrocession.' |
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| Reverse description | The central field displays the denomination in large Chinese characters 拾圓 (Ten Yuan) above the Arabic numeral 10, all rendered in a bold, formal style. Surrounding the central denomination, a continuous border legend is inscribed in archaic seal-script style Chinese characters arranged around the full circumference of the coin, reading 同心共營大台灣 and 搏聚休戚共生命的共同體, translating as 'Working together to make Taiwan great' and 'Living and working in harmony as a community of shared destiny.' The overall design employs a deliberate contrast between the modern central numerals and the ancient script of the border legend. |
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Issued to mark the 50th anniversary of Taiwan's Retrocession — the handover of Taiwan from Japanese colonial administration to the Republic of China on October 25, 1945 — this commemorative appeared at a moment of considerable political sensitivity. By 1995, cross-strait tensions were escalating sharply; Beijing conducted missile tests in the Taiwan Strait the following year in direct response to Taiwan's first direct presidential election. A coin celebrating the end of Japanese rule carried layered implications about sovereignty that neither side of the strait interpreted the same way.