China's circulating commemorative 5 Yuan series, launched in 2021, was designed to rotate through subjects of intangible cultural heritage — Peking Opera joined the series as one of the earlier entries in that rotation. The coins are legal tender struck for general circulation, though in practice most are pulled from circulation immediately by collectors, leaving genuine circulation examples harder to find than mintage figures suggest.
China's circulating commemorative 5 Yuan series, launched in 2021, was designed to rotate through subjects of intangible cultural heritage — Peking Opera joined the series as one of the earlier entries in that rotation. The coins are legal tender struck for general circulation, though in practice most are pulled from circulation immediately by collectors, leaving genuine circulation examples harder to find than mintage figures suggest.