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10 Yuan The Nymph of the Luo River - Beauty of the Goddess Luo
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 1999 山东·汉代画像石 |
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| Reverse script | Chinese/Latin |
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Issued as part of China's late-1990s push into the collector coin market, this piece belongs to a series drawing on classical Chinese literary and artistic traditions. "The Nymph of the Luo River" derives from a rhapsody attributed to Cao Zhi (192–232 AD), written after the death of Lady Zhen — a figure of considerable political tragedy during the Three Kingdoms period. The poem's imagery spawned one of the most reproduced subjects in Chinese painting history, most famously a long handscroll attributed to Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin dynasty.
The oval flan — unusual for Chinese commemorative coinage of this period — was a deliberate design choice to accommodate the composition.