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10 Yuan Romance of 3 Kingdoms - Bearded man, Dragon behind
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Weight | 27 g |
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| Obverse lettering | 中国名古典文学《三国演义》作者罗贯中 中华人民共和国 1997 |
| Reverse description | Full-length figure of a robed, bearded court official or nobleman standing in the center of the field, depicted in traditional Han Chinese ceremonial dress with hands clasped at chest level. Flanking the central figure on both sides are two sinuous Chinese dragons rendered in high relief, their scaled bodies coiling dynamically against the mirror-polished background. A decorative geometric border panel occupies the lower portion of the field, with the denomination '10元' inscribed in the lower left. An artist's seal cartouche appears to the lower right of the central figure. |
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Part of China's long-running Romance of the Three Kingdoms commemorative series, which the People's Bank issued across multiple years throughout the 1990s. The novels these coins draw from — attributed to Luo Guanzhong and written in the 14th century — are based on the turbulent Three Kingdoms period of the third century AD, when the Han dynasty fractured into the rival states of Wei, Wu, and Shu. Chinese commemorative silver of this era was produced heavily for export and collector markets rather than domestic circulation, a commercial strategy the PBC leaned into aggressively during the 1990s.
KM#1087 is one of several distinct types within the series sharing the same year and denomination.