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5 Yuan Sailing Ship
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | Second Rénmínbì (1955-date) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Mintage | 1996 - Proof - 15,000 |
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This issue belongs to the long-running Chinese Sailing Ship silver series, which drew consistent collector demand throughout the 1990s from both domestic and overseas markets — particularly among Chinese diaspora communities in Southeast Asia and North America. The 1996 date falls squarely in the period when the People's Bank of China was aggressively expanding its precious metals program, partly to generate hard currency through numismatic exports rather than domestic circulation.
Mintage figures for this type were never officially disclosed, a deliberate policy of the China Mint during this era.