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1000 Yuan Year of the Ox
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1006 |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 南京明远楼 1997 |
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| Reverse script | Chinese |
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This piece belongs to China's Lunar Gold series, which the People's Bank of China launched in 1981 as an explicit hard-currency export product — the coins were never intended for domestic circulation and were sold almost entirely through foreign dealers and banks to capture overseas demand for investment-grade gold. The 1997 Ox issue was produced at a moment when Hong Kong's handover was dominating international attention toward China, and export premiums on Chinese gold issues that year reflected unusually strong collector demand.
Mintages for the kilogram-class lunar pieces were tightly restricted, typically in the low hundreds.