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2000 Yuan Year of the Rat, Colored
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Diameter | 60 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 2020 |
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| Reverse script | Chinese |
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China's lunar gold program has issued colored variants of major denominations since the late 1990s, but the 2000 Yuan 150-gram pieces occupy a specific commercial tier — produced in strictly limited quantities and sold through authorized distribution channels at significant premiums over spot. The Rat, first in the twelve-year zodiac cycle, made 2020 the beginning of a new rotation, which typically drives collector demand for that year's issue above the average for mid-cycle animals.
The coloring is applied via enamel or lacquer process post-striking, a technique that has drawn periodic criticism from purists but which the People's Bank has continued expanding across the lunar series.