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3 Yuan 25th Anniversary of Panda Coinage
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 3 Yuan (3元, 叁圓) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1/4 oz Ag .999 3元 |
| Edge | Reeded |
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China's Panda bullion series launched in 1982 as one of the first modern bullion programs to change its reverse design annually — a deliberate policy decision that transformed the series into a collector-driven market almost immediately. By 2007, that annual-change rule was itself the coin's selling point, which makes this 25th anniversary issue something of a self-referential object: a coin commemorating the policy that made the series famous.
The 3 Yuan denomination is peculiar — it appears almost nowhere else in the modern Chinese coinage system and was introduced specifically for this commemorative run.