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10 Yuan Magpies Painting

Issuer People's Republic of China
Year 1994
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Technique Milled
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Obverse lettering 中华人民共和国
中国美术馆
1994
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Reverse script Chinese
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This piece belongs to the Chinese Painting series, which the People's Bank of China launched in the early 1990s to target the international collector market during a period of aggressive expansion in Chinese commemorative coin output. By 1994, the program had grown substantially, drawing on classical Chinese brush painting traditions to produce coins with cultural export appeal at a moment when China was actively cultivating soft-power relationships through trade.

The .900 silver specification — rather than the .999 fine silver common in contemporary issues — reflects production conventions inherited from earlier decades of Chinese mint practice.

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