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5 Yuan Sima Qian
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1986 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
| Obverse lettering | 中華人民共和國 1986 |
| Reverse description | A three-quarter figure of Sima Qian, the celebrated Han dynasty historian and author of the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian), is depicted seated at a low writing table covered with bamboo slips, rendered in finely detailed high relief against a mirror-polished proof field. To his left stands an ornate ceremonial vessel, and to his right a tall multi-tiered oil lamp candlestick illuminates the scene. The name 司馬遷 (Sima Qian) is inscribed in Chinese characters to the upper left, while a curved legend along the upper border reads 約公元前145－前87年 (approximately 145–87 BC), denoting his life dates. The denomination 5元 appears in large characters at the lower center of the field. |
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