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5 Yuan Buddha Statue
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 5 Yuan (5元, 伍圓) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse lettering | 彰化大佛 5元 |
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Part of China's long-running commemorative silver program of the 1980s and 1990s, this issue belongs to a series celebrating Chinese Buddhist art and architecture at a moment when the state was cautiously rehabilitating religious imagery following the Cultural Revolution's systematic destruction of temples, statues, and artifacts. The political calculation was explicit: tourism revenue and international collector markets justified state mints producing coins honoring traditions the same government had violently suppressed a generation earlier.