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100 Yuan Playing Children Painting
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Second Rénmínbì (1955-date) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Mintage | 1994 - Proof - 400 |
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Part of China's long-running gold and silver commemorative program dedicated to classical paintings, this 1994 issue reproduces a work from the Song dynasty genre of "baby pictures" — an enormously popular subject among court painters that depicted children at play as symbols of prosperity and dynastic continuity. The genre peaked under Emperor Huizong, himself an accomplished painter, before the Jin dynasty invasion of 1127 effectively ended imperial patronage of the northern court style.
At 373 grams, these large-format silver issues were struck in limited numbers and sold primarily through the China Gold Coin Corporation to overseas collectors, rarely entering domestic circulation.