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5 Yuan Taiwan Scenery
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents an elevated view of Chikan Tower (赤崁楼), a historic Sino-Dutch landmark in Tainan, Taiwan, depicted in fine relief with traditional multi-tiered pagoda rooftops and flanked by tall palm trees. The architectural detail captures the classical southern Chinese building style with upturned eaves. The legend 赤崁楼 appears in Chinese characters in the upper field. The denomination 5元 is inscribed in bold characters at the lower center of the field, above the bottom rim. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This issue belongs to the Taiwan Scenery series, a run of commemorative silver coins produced by the People's Bank of China beginning in the late 1980s that depicted landscapes of a territory over which the PRC claimed sovereignty but had not governed since 1949. The political subtext was deliberate — minting coins featuring Taiwan scenery was itself an assertion of jurisdictional claim, produced at a moment when cross-strait relations remained frozen and direct trade links nonexistent.
Mintages for issues in this series were modest and largely absorbed by overseas collector markets, particularly in North America and Japan.