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2000 Yuan Year of the Pig
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Within the scalloped eight-lobed field, a highly detailed frosted relief scene depicts a large sow accompanied by five piglets amid grasses and beneath overhanging leafy branches, emblematic of the Chinese Lunar Year of the Pig (亥年). The denomination 2000元 appears in the upper portion of the field in bold relief. To the upper right, the cyclical year inscription 亥之亥 is inscribed vertically in Chinese characters, further identifying the year within the sixty-year stem-branch calendar cycle. |
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| Mintage | 1995 - Proof - 15 |
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This one-kilogram piece was struck in 1995 as part of China's ongoing lunar gold bullion program, which the People's Bank launched in 1981 to generate hard currency through international coin markets rather than domestic circulation. The 2000 yuan face value is purely nominal — at issuance it represented a fraction of the gold's spot value, a deliberate fiction that technically classified these as legal tender while their real market existed entirely among foreign collectors and institutional buyers.
Mintages for the kilogram lunar issues from this period were extremely low, typically under 100 pieces.