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100 Yuan Temple of Heaven, Pattern
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | A giant panda seated facing, holding a bamboo shoot in its forepaws with additional bamboo stalks and leaves visible in the background to the right. To the right of the central device, the denomination and purity specifications are inscribed in three lines in Chinese characters and numerals: '100元' (100 yuan), '含纯金99.9%' (gold fineness 99.9%), and '重1盎司' (weight 1 troy ounce). The flat field surrounding the motif is unadorned. |
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| Obverse lettering | 100元 含纯金99.9% 重1盎司 |
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This is one of the earliest pattern gold strikes produced by the People's Bank of China as it explored international bullion coin formats in the post-reform period following Deng Xiaoping's economic opening. The Temple of Heaven motif was under active consideration for what would become China's flagship gold bullion program — the Gold Panda series launched in 1982 — before pandas displaced it as the recurring reverse subject.
KM#Pn3 documents it as a pattern, meaning it never progressed to circulation or official bullion release. Surviving examples are exceedingly few.