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10 Yuan Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Cao Pi
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 27 g |
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| Mint | Shenzhen Guobao Mint |
| Mintage | 1996 - Proof - 7,000 |
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The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" silver series was issued across multiple years in the 1990s, drawing from Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century historical novel rather than the Three Kingdoms period itself — a deliberate choice that privileged literary mythology over strict historiography. Cao Pi is a complicated figure within that tradition: founder of the Cao Wei state and the first emperor to formally end the Han dynasty in 220 AD, he is cast in the novel as a calculating schemer operating in his father Cao Cao's shadow.
Mintage for individual figures in this series ran relatively low by Chinese commemorative standards, and collector demand has historically tracked the cultural prominence of each character depicted.