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10 Yuan Yuelu Academy
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field presents a finely engraved panoramic view of the Yuelu Academy's main hall, a grand multi-tiered traditional Chinese pavilion with sweeping eaved rooflines, flanked by mature trees rendered in relief. The composition conveys classical Song-dynasty architectural grandeur. An inscription in Chinese characters identifying the subject appears in the lower right field. The denomination 10元 is inscribed in Arabic and Chinese numerals along the lower periphery. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Yuelu Academy in Changsha, founded in 976 AD during the Northern Song dynasty, is one of the four great academies of classical Chinese scholarship. It survived repeated destruction — most devastatingly during the Taiping Rebellion and again during the Second Sino-Japanese War — and was absorbed into what became Hunan University in 1926, making it arguably the oldest continuously operating site of higher education in China.
This coin belongs to a Chinese mint series commemorating ancient academies, issued in the mid-2000s when the People's Bank was aggressively expanding its cultural commemorative program for collector export markets.