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10 Yuan Auspicious Culture
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a traditional auspicious scene rendered with colorized appliqué: a plump, smiling child dressed in a red-dotted garment holds a lotus stem with blossoming flower, symbolic of purity and prosperity, while a large, vibrantly colored carp leaps dynamically beside the child against a delicately engraved foliate background. The carp is highlighted with color printing and features a blue gemstone eye, adding a decorative three-dimensional quality to the design. The denomination 10元 appears in the lower field, and the Chinese inscription 年年有余 (May You Have Abundance Year After Year) is placed vertically along the left margin, referencing the traditional New Year blessing. |
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| Reverse lettering | 年年有余 10元 |
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This piece belongs to the long-running Auspicious Culture series, which the People's Bank of China has used since the early 2000s to systematically document traditional Han folk customs and festival iconography in bullion form. The 2017 issue draws from the Lunar New Year cycle. Mintages for this series are set by the PBoC without public disclosure in advance, though secondary market behavior suggests pressings in the low hundreds of thousands — modest by Chinese commemorative standards but not genuinely scarce.