5 Yuan Bronze Chariot

The Bronze Chariot and Horses — unearthed in 1980 from the burial pit west of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum in Lintong — has appeared on Chinese coinage intermittently since the 1990s as part of the broader state program celebrating archaeological patrimony. The specific chariot honored here is Chariot No. 2, the larger of the two bronze assemblages recovered, originally lacquered and inlaid, cast in over 3,000 separate bronze components.