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100 Yuan Panda
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Weight | 8.00 g |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 2021 (Translation: People's Republic of China 2021) |
| Reverse description | Two giant pandas depicted in a naturalistic forest setting: one panda clings playfully to a bamboo tree trunk on the left, while a second panda faces forward in the lower right, gazing upward amid lush foliage. Overhanging bamboo leaves frame the upper portion of the design. The face value legend 100元 appears to the right in the field, and the metallic specifications 8g Au .999 are inscribed along the upper rim. |
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China's Panda gold program, launched in 1982, was unusual from the start in its decision to change the reverse design annually — a deliberate break from the fixed-design bullion philosophy of the Krugerrand and Maple Leaf. The strategy proved commercially effective, turning each year's issue into a discrete collectible rather than purely a fungible bullion product.
The 2021 issue was the first year following China's metric weight standardization, which shifted the series from troy ounce-based weights to round gram denominations in 2016 — a move that briefly disrupted secondary market pricing conventions in Western bullion markets.