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10 Yuan Spring Festival - Two Koi
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Currency | Second Rénmínbì (1955-date) |
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| Reverse lettering | 春节 10 元 |
| Edge | Reeded |
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China's annual Spring Festival silver series began in 1991 and ran through the early 2000s, each issue tied to specific festival customs rather than the zodiac cycle that dominates most Chinese commemorative output. The koi pairing in this 2003 issue draws on the homophonic relationship between the Mandarin word for fish — yú — and the word for surplus or abundance, a linguistic connection that has driven gift-giving traditions around the Lunar New Year for centuries.
Mintages for the later issues in this series were kept deliberately low by the People's Bank of China, and secondary market premiums have held firm as a result.