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150 Yuan Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 150 Yuan (150元) |
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| Obverse description | The national emblem of the People's Republic of China is centrally depicted, featuring Tiananmen Gate beneath a large five-pointed star flanked by four smaller stars, all set within a circular wreath of grain ears bound at the base with a cogwheel. The emblem is rendered in high relief against a smooth field. The legend 中华人民共和国 (People's Republic of China) arcs along the upper periphery in Chinese characters. The date 2020 appears in the exergue below the emblem. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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Liangzhu, located near present-day Hangzhou, was formally inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in July 2019 — the direct political prompt for this issue. The site represents one of the earliest large-scale hydraulic engineering systems yet documented in East Asia, with a network of dams and reservoirs predating comparable European water management infrastructure by roughly three millennia. China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage had lobbied for the inscription for over a decade before success.
At 500 grams struck in .999 silver across a 90mm planchet, this is among the heavier issues in the People's Bank archaeological commemorative series — a scale chosen deliberately to accommodate the cartographic and stratigraphic detail the designers required.