25 Yuan Goddess Kuan Yin

The Kuan Yin gold series, running through much of the 1980s and 1990s, was part of China's aggressive push into the international bullion and collector coin market following the establishment of the China Gold Coin Corporation in 1979. These issues were designed partly to generate hard currency at a moment when China was actively courting foreign investment and expanding export trade.

The 1995 issue is among the later entries in the series before it was discontinued. Mintages were never officially published with consistency, a deliberate policy that complicated secondary market pricing for years.