Sun Yat-sen's 150th birth anniversary in 2016 prompted a coordinated commemorative program across both the People's Republic and Taiwan — an unusual moment of parallel acknowledgment for a figure each government claims as its own founding patriarch. The PRC's embrace of Sun is ideologically careful: he is positioned as a revolutionary precursor to Communist rule rather than the liberal democrat his Three Principles of the People actually described.
Brass commemoratives of this type saw wide distribution through state banking channels rather than general circulation, keeping most examples in unhandled condition.
Sun Yat-sen's 150th birth anniversary in 2016 prompted a coordinated commemorative program across both the People's Republic and Taiwan — an unusual moment of parallel acknowledgment for a figure each government claims as its own founding patriarch. The PRC's embrace of Sun is ideologically careful: he is positioned as a revolutionary precursor to Communist rule rather than the liberal democrat his Three Principles of the People actually described.
Brass commemoratives of this type saw wide distribution through state banking channels rather than general circulation, keeping most examples in unhandled condition.