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100 Yuan Romance of Three Kingdoms - Zhuge Liang on throne
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Diameter | 32 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Luo Guanzhong, author of the classic Chinese literary work Romance of the Three Kingdoms, facing three-quarters right, depicted in traditional scholar's robes and headwear, rendered in high relief against a plain field. A circular legend surrounds the portrait reading '中华古典文学《三国演义》作者罗贯中' (Luo Guanzhong, author of the Chinese classic literature Romance of the Three Kingdoms). Below the bust, the inscription '中华人民共和国' (People's Republic of China) appears, with the date '1995' beneath. |
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| Reverse lettering | 诸葛亮 100元 |
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The fifth and final coin in China's Romance of the Three Kingdoms gold series, this 1995 issue closed a run that began in 1991. The series drew from Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century historical novel rather than directly from the events of the Three Kingdoms period itself — a meaningful distinction, since the Zhuge Liang of popular Chinese imagination is substantially a literary construction. His portrayal as the consummate strategist-sage had been hardening in Chinese cultural consciousness for centuries before the novel fixed it permanently.
People's Bank issues of this type were struck by the Shenzhen Guobao Mint. Mintages for the later coins in this series were lower than the opening issues.