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25 Yuan Recording of Comets, Platinum Bullion
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Weight | 7.7758 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts an ancient Chinese astronomer in traditional Han-dynasty robes standing in the right field, gazing upward toward a comet streaking across the upper left portion of the field, accompanied by a crescent moon, stars, and a group of smaller figures pointing skyward in the background. A young attendant stands in the foreground at lower center, also gesturing upward toward the celestial phenomenon. A traditional pavilion and decorative garden elements appear in the upper right field. The Chinese inscription 首次发现彗星 (First Discovery of a Comet) and the date 公元2000年 (2000 AD) appear in the left field, with the denomination 25元 inscribed to the lower right. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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China's platinum panda-format bullion program was never large, and the comets series issued in 1994 occupied an even narrower slice of it. Mintages for these platinum fractionals were kept extremely low — often a few thousand pieces globally — partly because platinum commanding a premium over gold at the time made buyer appetite unpredictable. The series drew loosely on astronomical themes tied to Chinese observational history, a tradition stretching back to the earliest systematic comet records anywhere in the world, some dating to the Shang dynasty.
KM#632 remains one of the harder platinum issues from this program to source in original packaging.