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10 Yuan Spring Festival - Two Koi
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Central composition depicts two symmetrically facing koi fish, rendered in intricate scale detail and shown nose-to-nose beneath a decorative ruyi-cloud scroll motif. A ribbon-tied ornamental banner bearing the inscription 春节 (Spring Festival) occupies the upper field, flanked by stylized cloud forms. The denomination 10 元 appears in Arabic numerals and Chinese characters at the bottom of the field, the overall design executed in the traditional Chinese folk-art papercut style. |
| Reverse script | Chinese |
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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.