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200 Yuan Sichuan Sanxingdui relics
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Currency | Second Rénmínbì (1955-date) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
| Mint | China Gold Coin Incorporation |
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The Sanxingdui site near Guanghan was accidentally rediscovered in 1929 when a farmer broke open an underground cache of jade and stone artifacts. Systematic excavation didn't begin until 1986, when two major sacrificial pits yielded thousands of bronze, gold, jade, and ivory objects belonging to a Bronze Age civilization with no known connection to the contemporaneous Central Plains cultures — a discovery that fundamentally unsettled assumptions about the geographic spread of early Chinese civilization. The culture is dated roughly to 1200–1000 BC and remains only partially decoded; no writing system has been identified.
The 2002 gold issue was part of a broader PBC series commemorating Chinese archaeological heritage. Mintage for this piece was capped at 2,000.