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10 Yuan Alfred Nobel
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The national emblem of the People's Republic of China is prominently depicted in the centre of the field, featuring Tiananmen Gate below a semicircle of five stars, all encircled by a wreath of grain stalks tied at the base with a cogwheel, rendered in fine relief against a mirror-polished field. The circular legend 中華人民共和國, reading 'People's Republic of China', arcs along the upper periphery in Chinese characters. The date 1992 appears in the lower exergual area beneath the emblem. |
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| Reverse script | Chinese, Latin |
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Issued the year China was aggressively expanding its commemorative silver program to attract foreign hard currency, this piece belongs to a series the People's Bank produced specifically for export collectors rather than domestic circulation. Nobel himself is a peculiar choice for a Chinese state issue — his connection to China is essentially nonexistent — but by the early 1990s the mint was targeting internationally recognizable figures to maximize overseas sales through authorized distributors in Europe and North America.
The 1992 Nobel issue was struck at the Shanghai Mint.