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10 Yuan Minorities - Madame She Xiang reading scroll
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse depicts the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, rendered in precise architectural detail at centre, with a prominent multi-storey tower rising above the flanking wings of the building. The legend '中华人民共和国' (People's Republic of China) is arranged in Chinese characters around the upper field. A small rectangular seal script cartouche appears to the right. The date '1997' is inscribed in the lower field, flanked on either side by an ornamental spray of stylised floral and foliate motifs. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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She Xiang was a real historical figure — a tribal leader's wife from the Tujia people who governed alongside her husband in the Hunan-Hubei border region during the Northern Song dynasty, around the mid-10th century. The Chinese state later elevated her to near-legendary status, crediting her with military defense of the territory against rival forces. This coin belongs to a long-running silver series celebrating China's 56 officially recognized ethnic minorities, issued across the 1990s and into the 2000s, each denomination pairing a specific figure or cultural scene with a particular group.
The Tujia were not formally classified as a distinct minority until 1957, following post-revolutionary ethnographic surveys that redrew the country's entire ethnic taxonomy.