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10 Yuan Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Cao Cao
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | 中国著名古典文学《三国演义》作者罗贯中 中华人民共和国 1996 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" silver series ran across multiple years in the 1990s, with the People's Bank of China issuing individual pieces dedicated to major figures from Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century novel — itself drawn from the actual civil wars that fragmented the Han dynasty after 220 AD. Cao Cao is the series' most politically loaded subject: reviled as a villain in the novel's Confucian moral framing, yet rehabilitated by Mao Zedong in 1959 as a capable statesman unfairly maligned by history.
That ideological tension gives this particular piece an edge the others in the series lack.