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5 Yuan Dancing

Issuer People's Bank of China
Year 1995
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Shape Round
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Edge Reeded
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Issued as part of China's long-running minority cultures series, this piece commemorates traditional dance forms of one of China's 55 recognized ethnic minorities — a program the People's Bank used throughout the 1990s to produce low-denomination silver coins with relatively modest mintages aimed squarely at the domestic collector market rather than international bullion buyers.

The .900 fineness is notably lower than the .999 standard the mint adopted for its prestige panda issues, a deliberate cost distinction that kept these smaller commemoratives accessible to a broader audience inside China.

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