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30 Yuan Figure Skating, Piedfort
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Currency | Second Rénmínbì (1955-date) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts a dynamic figure skater in mid-leap, rendered in high relief with fine detail capturing the athletic grace of the pose, arms and legs extended in an expressive artistic movement. Decorative snowflake motifs are distributed around the periphery of the field, evoking the winter sporting theme. A stylized flame or torch symbol appears to the left of the central figure. The Latin legend 'LAKE PLACID 1980' is inscribed along the lower portion of the field, referencing the XIII Winter Olympic Games. Chinese characters appear in the upper portion of the reverse, completing the bilingual inscriptions. |
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China's 1980 Olympic commemorative series was issued to coincide with the XIII Winter Games in Lake Placid — the first Winter Olympics in which the People's Republic of China officially participated as a competing nation. The piedfort format, double the thickness of the standard strike, was produced in limited numbers aimed squarely at the foreign collector market, part of a broader hard-currency strategy the PRC pursued through the China Numismatic Corporation during the reform period following 1978.
The .800 silver fineness is notably lower than the .999 standard that would define later Chinese collector issues, reflecting early-period production norms before the Shenzhen and Shanghai mints refined their precious-metal programs.