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5 Yuan Great Wall
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Reverse description | A detailed relief depiction of a watchtower of the Great Wall of China dominates the left and central field, rendered with strong architectural detail including battlements, arched openings, and stepped stone approaches. The wall extends dramatically into the mountainous background to the upper right, conveying the monument's vast scale across rugged terrain. The denomination 5元 appears to the right in the field. At the lower left, a two-line Chinese inscription reads 世界文化遗产 / 万里长城 ('World Cultural Heritage / The Great Wall'). |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Great Wall 5 Yuan coin has a complicated production history that most catalog entries gloss over. China first issued the denomination in 1985 as part of a push to introduce higher-value circulating coinage, but chronic hoarding — driven partly by metal value speculation and partly by the public's distrust of paper ¥5 notes — meant successive years of minting ran well behind actual circulation demand. By 2002, the series had been through multiple alloy adjustments chasing a composition that was economical to produce but difficult to counterfeit profitably.
KM#1412 is the brass-washed zinc iteration, a cost-driven revision from earlier copper-nickel strikes.