2000 Yuan Hangzhou West Lake

The West Lake series, issued periodically by the People's Bank of China, draws on one of the most politically charged scenic designations in modern Chinese cultural policy — West Lake in Hangzhou was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2011 after decades of lobbying, a recognition Beijing treated as a point of national cultural prestige rather than merely conservation. The 155.52g weight places this in the five-troy-ounce category, the heaviest denomination tier the PBC regularly issued in this landscape series.