This issue dates to the period when the Republic of China government on Taiwan was still actively cultivating international recognition as the legitimate Chinese state — a posture that shaped every aspect of official currency production. The 2000 New Dollar denomination was part of a prestige gold series aimed at collectors and diplomatic gift channels rather than circulation, produced in limited quantities through the Central Mint of China.
Fr#15 in Friedberg's gold coinage catalog places it within a small group of mid-1960s Taiwanese gold issues that remain underrepresented in Western auction records, partly because a significant portion of original production never left government and institutional hands.
This issue dates to the period when the Republic of China government on Taiwan was still actively cultivating international recognition as the legitimate Chinese state — a posture that shaped every aspect of official currency production. The 2000 New Dollar denomination was part of a prestige gold series aimed at collectors and diplomatic gift channels rather than circulation, produced in limited quantities through the Central Mint of China.
Fr#15 in Friedberg's gold coinage catalog places it within a small group of mid-1960s Taiwanese gold issues that remain underrepresented in Western auction records, partly because a significant portion of original production never left government and institutional hands.