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10 Yuan Tibetan Antelope
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Diameter | 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | The national emblem of the People's Republic of China is depicted centrally, featuring Tiananmen Gate beneath five stars arranged in a semicircle, all within a wreath of grain ears tied with a ribbon at the base. The emblem is rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The legend 中华人民共和国 (People's Republic of China) curves along the upper periphery in Chinese characters. The date 2011 appears in the lower exergue in Arabic numerals. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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Part of China's long-running lunar and wildlife bullion program, the Tibetan Antelope series was introduced partly in response to the near-collapse of the chiru population — poached to near-extinction through the 1980s and 1990s to supply the shahtoosh shawl trade. By 2011, coordinated enforcement along the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau had begun reversing population numbers, and the coin series itself functioned as a direct extension of state-backed conservation messaging tied to that recovery effort.
The .999 fine silver panda series had long anchored China's bullion program, but wildlife issues like this one were struck in smaller, defined mintages rather than demand-driven quantities — making secondary market premiums considerably more volatile.