China's gold Panda series has been issued annually since 1982, with the deliberate policy of changing the reverse design each year making date-specific hoarding endemic among collectors from the outset. The 15-gram weight denomination sits in a fractional lineup restructured in 2016, when China abandoned troy-ounce-based weights in favor of metric gram denominations — a change that orphaned much pre-existing collector packaging and disrupted secondary market premiums for several years.
China's gold Panda series has been issued annually since 1982, with the deliberate policy of changing the reverse design each year making date-specific hoarding endemic among collectors from the outset. The 15-gram weight denomination sits in a fractional lineup restructured in 2016, when China abandoned troy-ounce-based weights in favor of metric gram denominations — a change that orphaned much pre-existing collector packaging and disrupted secondary market premiums for several years.