The 1994 issue falls within the period when the People's Bank of China was still changing the Panda design annually — a policy that began in 1982 and was suspended only in 2001 before resuming in 2016. That annual design rotation was a deliberate strategy to drive collector demand, and it worked; the series developed a substantial international following through the 1980s and 1990s, particularly in the United States and Germany.
The 1994 tenth-ounce was struck at the Shenzhen Guobao Mint. Authentication matters here — counterfeits of this series targeting the small-denomination gold issues proliferated in Asian secondary markets during the late 1990s.
The 1994 issue falls within the period when the People's Bank of China was still changing the Panda design annually — a policy that began in 1982 and was suspended only in 2001 before resuming in 2016. That annual design rotation was a deliberate strategy to drive collector demand, and it worked; the series developed a substantial international following through the 1980s and 1990s, particularly in the United States and Germany.
The 1994 tenth-ounce was struck at the Shenzhen Guobao Mint. Authentication matters here — counterfeits of this series targeting the small-denomination gold issues proliferated in Asian secondary markets during the late 1990s.