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5 Yuan Taiwan Scenery
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central depiction of the Great Wall of China stretching across a mountainous landscape, rendered in fine relief with detailed stonework and crenellations. The national title 中华人民共和国 (People's Republic of China) is inscribed in Chinese characters along the upper rim. The date appears in the lower field beneath the principal design. |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 |
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This piece belongs to a series that put Beijing in the awkward position of issuing coins depicting landmarks it did not control. The Taiwan Scenery series, produced through the early 1990s, was aimed squarely at overseas Chinese collectors and the international bullion market — a commercial calculation dressed in cultural language. The People's Republic had no political claim to mint coins honoring the island's geography, yet the series sold well precisely because diaspora sentiment and collector demand made sovereignty questions secondary to profit.