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5 Yuan Goddess Kuan Yin
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Value | 5 Yuan (5元, 伍圓) |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 1994 |
| Reverse description | The bodhisattva Guanyin (Kuan Yin) is depicted standing in a graceful three-quarter pose, robed in flowing drapery rendered with fine sculptural detail, and surrounded by a circular nimbus or halo behind her head. In her right hand she holds a willow branch, a traditional iconographic attribute, while her left hand rests gently at her side. The vertical Chinese inscription 觀世音菩薩 (Goddess Guanyin) appears to the left of the figure, and the denomination 5元 is shown to the upper right in the field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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