10 Yuan Panda

China's Panda silver bullion series, launched in 1983, broke from international convention by changing its design annually — a deliberate policy choice that transformed each year's issue into a discrete collectible rather than a fungible bullion product. The 2025 issue continues that tradition, now over four decades unbroken except for the controversial 2001–2002 period when the design was repeated, triggering significant collector backlash and a policy reversal.

Since 2016, the series shifted from a troy ounce weight standard to 30 grams under China's metrication push for its bullion programs.