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10 Yuan Panda
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Weight | 30 g |
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| Obverse description | Central depiction of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests at the Temple of Heaven, rendered in fine relief with elaborate architectural detail including its triple-eaved circular roof, balustraded terrace, and ceremonial stairway. The structure is set within a recessed inner circle, with the country name legend 中华人民共和国 arranged along the upper periphery in Chinese characters. The date 2017 appears in the lower exergue in Arabic numerals. The broad outer rim is raised and polished, framing the composition. |
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| Reverse description | A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is depicted seated in three-quarter view at center, holding and feeding upon a sprig of bamboo with both forepaws. The animal is rendered in highly detailed frosty relief against a mirror-polished field, with a dense bamboo grove filling the background. The denomination 10元 is inscribed to the left in the field, with the weight and fineness inscription 30g Ag 999 appearing along the lower exergue. The overall composition conveys naturalistic depth and is characteristic of the annually changing panda designs in this celebrated series. |
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China restructured its Panda bullion program in 2016, abandoning the fixed 1 troy ounce standard it had used since 1983 in favor of a metric 30-gram specification — a change driven partly by domestic policy preference for metric weights and partly by a desire to distinguish the series from Western bullion competitors. The 2017 issue was only the second year struck under this new standard, meaning direct size comparison with pre-2016 Pandas reveals a measurable difference collectors still debate.