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| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a naturalistic high-relief composition of two giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) amid lush bamboo foliage. A juvenile panda clings playfully to a bamboo trunk at left, gazing outward, while a larger adult panda rests at right, its head turned upward toward the cub. Bamboo leaves rendered in fine detail frame the upper and left portions of the field. The denomination 10元 appears in the upper right field, with the fineness and weight inscription 30g Ag.999 arcing along the upper border in Latin characters. |
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| Edge | Reeded slanted |
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China's Panda silver bullion series has changed its design annually since 1983 — with the single, controversial exception of 2001 and 2002, when identical designs were reused and sparked significant collector backlash. The People's Bank of China has since maintained the annual-change policy without interruption. The 2021 issue was struck during a year when global silver demand spiked sharply, driven by a coordinated retail buying campaign in late January that briefly pushed spot silver to an eight-year high, tightening allocations from authorized distributors worldwide.