50 Yuan 80th Anniversary of the 1911 Revolution

The 1911 Revolution — known in China as the Xinhai Revolution — overthrew the Qing dynasty and ended over two millennia of imperial rule, though the republic that followed was almost immediately contested by Yuan Shikai's authoritarian consolidation. By 1991, the PRC's commemoration of the anniversary carried its own political weight: the Beijing government claiming revolutionary continuity with Sun Yat-sen's movement despite the KMT's opposing claim from Taiwan. At 155.5 grams of fine silver, this is a five-troy-ounce piece — a format the Chinese mint favored heavily in the early 1990s for prestige commemoratives targeting overseas collectors.