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10 Yuan Romance of Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 10 Yuan (10元, 拾圓) |
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| Obverse description | Central bust portrait of Luo Guanzhong, the renowned Ming-dynasty author of the classical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, depicted facing slightly left with a long flowing beard, mustache, and traditional scholar's cap with trailing cloth ties. The portrait is rendered in finely detailed high relief against a mirror-polished field. A curved Chinese legend arcs along the upper periphery reading '中国古典文学《三国演义》作者罗贯中' (Author of the Chinese classical literary work Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong). The inscription '中华人民共和国' (People's Republic of China) appears in the lower field, with the date '1995' beneath. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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Part of the People's Bank of China's long-running Romance of the Three Kingdoms commemorative series, this 1995 issue honors Luo Guanzhong, the 14th-century author credited with compiling the novel from earlier oral histories and historical chronicles — most importantly the Sanguozhi of Chen Shou. Whether Luo was a single historical individual or a composite attribution remains genuinely contested among scholars. The series itself ran across multiple years and mintage tranches, making complete set assembly more complicated than it first appears.