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5 Yuan Mount Taishan
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 5 Yuan (5元, 伍圓) |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 2019 (Translation: People's Republic of China) |
| Reverse description | A panoramic landscape depiction of Mount Taishan rendered in the traditional Chinese painting style occupies the majority of the field, featuring layered rocky peaks, ancient stone staircases ascending the mountainside, a solitary pilgrim climbing the steps, gnarled pine trees in the foreground, and a crescent moon at upper right. A vertical inscription on a cliff face in the middle ground evokes the historic stone carvings found on the mountain. The denomination 5元 appears in the right field. The legend 世界文化和自然遗产——泰山 (World Cultural and Natural Heritage — Mount Tai) is inscribed along the lower margin in simplified Chinese characters. |
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Mount Tai has been a site of imperial ritual since at least the Zhou dynasty, with emperors performing the feng and shan sacrifices there to legitimize their rule — a tradition that continued through the Qing. The 2019 issue is part of China's ongoing landscape commemorative series for the 5 yuan brass denomination, which the People's Bank began expanding significantly in the 2010s as circulating commemoratives rather than collector-only releases, meaning genuine circulation examples do exist.