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10 Yuan 100th Anniversary of Liu Shaoqi
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a frontal view of the Liu Shaoqi Memorial Hall in Ningxiang, Hunan Province, rendered in fine detail with traditional Chinese architectural elements including a symmetrical façade, central gateway, and flanking pavilions. The national title legend 中华人民共和国 (People's Republic of China) is inscribed along the upper periphery in Chinese characters. Below the building, the inscriptions 湖南宁乡刘少奇纪念馆 and 刘少奇诞辰一百周年 identify the memorial hall and commemorate the centenary of Liu Shaoqi's birth, with the year 1998 appearing in the lower exergue. |
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| Reverse lettering | 刘少奇 1898 1998 10元 |
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Liu Shaoqi's centenary commemorative was issued just three decades after his death under circumstances the Chinese state had spent years trying to reframe. Once Mao's designated successor and head of state, Liu was purged in 1968 at the height of the Cultural Revolution, stripped of all titles, denied medical treatment, and died in detention in 1969. His formal rehabilitation came only in 1980, when the Party officially reversed its verdict and declared the persecution a historic mistake.
The decision to issue a state commemorative eighteen years after that rehabilitation signals how completely the official narrative had been rewritten by the late 1990s.