5 Yuan Li Da-Chao

Li Dazhao was one of the two founders of the Chinese Communist Party — alongside Chen Duxiu — and introduced Marxism to China through his editorial work at Peking University's library in the late 1910s. He was strangled by warlord Zhang Zuolin's forces in 1927 after being seized from the Soviet legation in Beijing, a violation of diplomatic sanctuary that caused an international incident. This coin was issued as part of the PBC's ongoing commemorative series honoring figures deemed central to the revolutionary tradition, a program that accelerated through the 1990s.