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5 Yuan Goddess Kuan Yin
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse lettering | 观世音菩萨 5元 |
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The Kuan Yin gold series ran from 1985 through the late 1990s and occupied an unusual position in Chinese numismatic policy — produced explicitly for export and foreign exchange earnings rather than domestic circulation, it was sold through state-controlled channels to Western collectors and investors at a time when private gold ownership inside China remained heavily restricted.
The 1996 issue is the penultimate year of the series before it was discontinued, a decision that has never been formally explained by the People's Bank of China.