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10 Yuan 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Zhou En-lai
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse description | Central view of the Zhou En-lai Memorial Hall building in Huai'an, Jiangsu, rendered in fine relief with decorative trees flanking the structure. A circular legend in Chinese characters arcs around the upper periphery, reading the name of the issuing state, while a secondary inscription below the building identifies the memorial hall. The date 1998 and the commemorative legend marking the centenary of Zhou En-lai's birth appear in the lower field. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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Zhou Enlai died in January 1976, eight months before Mao — and the public grief at his death was so overwhelming that the Politburo banned official mourning, a suppression that directly triggered the Tiananmen Square incident of April 1976, when hundreds of thousands gathered anyway to lay wreaths. That event nearly derailed Deng Xiaoping's political rehabilitation. The commemorative program marking the centenary of Zhou's birth was, in part, an official reclamation of a figure whose popularity had once made the Party visibly nervous.