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10 Yuan Peking Opera
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Central depiction of the Temple of Heaven's Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (祈年殿), rendered in fine detail with its characteristic triple-eaved circular roof and tiered stone terrace, set against a plain polished field. The national title 中华人民共和国 (People's Republic of China) is inscribed in Chinese characters along the upper periphery in a circular legend. The year of issue 1999 appears in the lower exergue, flanked by the denomination legend 祈年殿 below the central motif. |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 祈年殿 1999 |
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The Peking Opera silver series, issued through the late 1990s, was part of a broader Chinese mint strategy to court international collectors at a moment when Chinese commemorative coinage was gaining serious traction in Western numismatic markets. The 1999 issue depicts a scene from a genre that had been officially suppressed during the Cultural Revolution — Jiang Qing's campaign against traditional opera effectively shuttered performances for nearly a decade, making the state's later embrace of it as a cultural export symbol a pointed reversal.