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10 Yuan International Stamps and Coins Fair
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts a giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) seated in a relaxed posture, holding and feeding on a bamboo sprig, rendered in high relief against a finely detailed background of bamboo stalks and foliage. The panda's characteristic markings are rendered with fine engraving detail. The fineness and weight designation Ag.999 1oz appears in the upper field in Latin characters. The denomination 10元 is inscribed in the lower right field in Chinese characters. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ag.999 1oz 10元 |
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China's annual International Stamps and Coins Fair series, launched in the late 1990s, was designed explicitly to serve the collector market rather than circulation — a pattern Beijing leaned into heavily as hard-currency generation through numismatic exports became a deliberate policy goal. The 2000 issue coincided with the fair held in Beijing during a particularly active year for Chinese commemorative output, when the mint was producing an almost bewildering volume of .999 silver pieces targeting both domestic collectors and overseas Chinese communities.
The partial gilding on this type was applied at the mint, not aftermarket — a distinction worth noting given how many earlier Chinese silver commemoratives were later gilt by third parties.