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10 Yuan 100th Anniversary of Liu Shaoqi
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | A three-quarter portrait of Liu Shaoqi facing slightly left occupies the central field, depicting the statesman in a dignified and composed manner with a warm expression. A spray of lotus blossoms and leaves is rendered in fine relief in the lower left portion of the field, serving as a decorative and symbolic element. To the upper left, the name 刘少奇 is inscribed vertically in Chinese characters, accompanied by the dates 1898 and 1998 marking the centenary span of his birth. The denomination 10元 appears in the right field in bold numeral and character form. |
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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.