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100 New Dollars Sūn Zhōngshān
| Issuer | Taiwan |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Weight | 22.21 g |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 54 (1965) - 年四十五國民華中 |
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Issued to mark the centenary of Sun Yat-sen's birth, this coin appeared at a politically charged moment: the Republic of China government on Taiwan was still formally claiming sovereignty over the mainland, and commemorating the founder common to both regimes was an implicit assertion of legitimate succession over the People's Republic. Beijing issued its own commemoratives the same year for the same centennial.
The .750 silver fineness is atypical for the period — most contemporaneous commemorative issues from the region used .800 or went straight to .999. Production was handled by the Central Mint of China, relocated to Taiwan after 1949.