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100 Yuan Unicorn
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a young immortal figure, rendered in traditional Chinese artistic style, seated astride a bounding qilin (麒麟) — the Chinese mythological unicorn — which gallops rightward above stylized auspicious clouds. The rider holds a lotus bloom and stem in the left hand and a ruyi sceptre in the right, with ornamental jewellery at the neck. The legend 中华人民共和国 (People's Republic of China) arcs along the upper periphery in Chinese characters, with the characters 麒麟 inscribed to the lower right of the field. The date 1994 appears in the lower exergue beneath the cloud motif. |
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| Mintage | 1994 - Proof |
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The Chinese Unicorn series launched in 1994 as a direct competitor to established bullion programs from the U.S., Canada, and South Africa, with the People's Bank of China targeting international collector markets rather than domestic circulation. The 1994 issue is the inaugural year of the series, which gives it persistent demand among set collectors that later dates simply don't attract in the same way.
Mintage figures for early Chinese gold issues from this period were inconsistently reported and rarely audited by outside bodies, a situation that has made population data unreliable to this day.