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10 Yuan Year of the Dragon
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 31.1035 g |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Edge | Plain |
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China's Year of the Dragon silver issues have been produced annually in the lunar series since 1981, but the 2000 dragon holds particular weight in that sequence — it marks the first Dragon year of the new millennium and coincides with a cyclical overlap between the Western year 2000 and the Chinese Year of the Dragon, which ran from February 5, 2000 to January 23, 2001. Mintages for this issue were tightly controlled by the People's Bank of China, and the coins were distributed primarily through authorized dealers and gift channels rather than general circulation.
Strike quality on Chinese Panda-series contemporaries from this period occasionally shows uneven field polish, though the lunar issues from the same facility generally maintained tighter quality control.