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10 Yuan Goddess Kuan Yin
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 31.1035 g |
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| Reverse description | Seated frontal effigy of Guanyin (觀音菩薩), the Bodhisattva of Compassion, depicted in idealized classical style with an elaborate crown and halo, draped robes falling in fine folds, and hands clasped at the center holding a lotus blossom with a second lotus rising to the left. A vertical inscription in Chinese characters reading 觀世音菩薩 appears in the right field. The denomination 10 and currency symbol 元 are inscribed in the lower left field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 觀世音菩薩 10元 |
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The Kuan Yin silver series, issued annually by the People's Bank of China through much of the 1990s, was aimed squarely at the international bullion and collector market rather than domestic circulation. The 1996 issue coincides with a period when China was aggressively expanding its numismatic export program, using coins partly as a soft-currency tool to attract foreign exchange.
KM#936 is one of several Kuan Yin reverses used across the run — the series changed designs yearly, which drove collector demand but has complicated attribution ever since.