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5 Yuan Sailboat Racing
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Composition | Silver (.900) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | A racing sailboat under full spinnaker dominates the central field, depicted heeling under wind with billowing sails bearing the registration number 105, sailing over stylized waves rendered in fine detail. To the left, the denomination 5元 is inscribed, with the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games logo — comprising the Olympic rings surmounted by the Chinese national flag emblem — positioned above it. A vertical Chinese legend 奥林匹克运动会 (Olympic Games) runs along the right side of the field, and the date 1988年 appears along the upper left rim. |
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Part of China's ambitious commemorative silver program of the late 1980s, this piece was issued ahead of the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing — the first time China had hosted a major multi-sport international event. The Games carried enormous political weight for the government, which used the commemorative coin series as both a revenue instrument and a soft-power signal to international audiences still processing China's post-Tiananmen position.
Mintage for this type was capped to sustain collector demand, a deliberate policy the People's Bank of China had refined through earlier Olympic and wildlife series.