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10 Yuan Celebrating Spring
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Weight | 31.1035 g |
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| Mint | Shenyang Mint |
| Mintage | 1997 - - 60,000 1997 - Proof - 60,000 |
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Issued as part of China's annual Lunar New Year commemorative program, which the People's Bank of China established in the 1980s as both a cultural project and a hard-currency export product aimed squarely at the overseas Chinese collector market. By 1997, the series had grown into a reliable foreign exchange earner, with mintages calibrated to demand from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and diaspora buyers rather than domestic circulation.
1997 carried obvious political weight — the handover of Hong Kong on July 1st dominated the year's commemorative calendar, making non-handover issues from that year somewhat overshadowed in the secondary market.