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3 Yuan 25th Anniversary of Panda Coinage
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 3 Yuan (3元, 叁圓) |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 中国熊猫金币发行25周年纪念 2007 |
| Reverse description | A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) depicted in a naturalistic walking pose occupies the central field, rendered with fine frosted relief against a mirror-polished background. Bamboo stalks are visible in the upper background. The denomination 3元 appears in the lower field in Chinese characters. The fineness and weight designation 1/4oz Ag.999 arcs along the upper periphery in Latin characters. Small cross-shaped mint marks flank the lower portion of the central design. |
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China's Panda bullion program launched in 1982 as one of the first modern bullion series to change its reverse design annually — a deliberate policy that transformed the coins from simple silver holdings into collectibles requiring yearly acquisition. The 3 Yuan denomination in this anniversary series is unusual; the standard Panda issues run in round denominations tied to face value conventions, making this fractional commemorative an outlier in the program's structure.
The 25th anniversary release in 2007 coincided with growing international speculation in Chinese numismatic issues ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which measurably inflated secondary market premiums on nearly everything the China Mint produced that year.