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10 Yuan Dream of Red Mansion
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal silver flan bearing a finely engraved portrait of Cao Xueqin, author of the classic novel 'Dream of the Red Chamber', depicted in three-quarter view seated at a writing desk, brush in hand, with a decorative rockery and floral arrangement to his left. The field is plain and polished to a mirror proof finish. A curved legend at the top reads '中国古典文学名著《红楼梦》作者曹雪芹' (Cao Xueqin, author of the Chinese classic literary masterpiece 'Dream of the Red Chamber'), with '中华人民共和国' (People's Republic of China) inscribed below the central design and the date '2003' at the bottom. |
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| Reverse script | Chinese |
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Issued as part of China's long-running classical literature commemorative series, this coin draws from Cao Xueqin's 18th-century novel, left unfinished at his death around 1763 and completed — controversially — by Gao E some decades later. The People's Bank began the Dream of Red Mansions silver series in 2002, issuing multiple coins across several years, each pulling from different episodes and characters within a novel so sprawling it sustained an entire academic discipline in China known as Hónglóu studies.
Mintage for individual issues in this series was capped at 60,000 pieces.