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50 Yuan Art of Chinese Calligraphy, Rectangular
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Technique | Proof |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a densely composed arrangement of Chinese calligraphic characters in multiple historical scripts across the field, referencing the full breadth of Chinese calligraphic tradition including oracle bone, bronze, seal, clerical, and regular scripts. At the left portion, several large archaic seal-script characters are rendered in bold relief against the polished background. The denomination 50元 appears prominently in the lower right corner. The intricate design celebrates the artistic heritage of Chinese calligraphy as a cultural and literary art form, with the composition evoking the appearance of a classical rubbing from a stele inscription. |
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| Mint | Shenzhen Guobao Mint |
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This piece belongs to a series the People's Bank of China launched in 2015 to document the five principal scripts of Chinese calligraphy — seal, clerical, cursive, running, and regular — each assigned its own rectangular issue. The rectangular format itself was a deliberate departure from round coinage norms, chosen to evoke the vertical scroll tradition central to calligraphic presentation.
The 2018 release covers running script, or xíngshū, the hand most associated with Wang Xizhi's 4th-century *Lantingji Xu* — a manuscript so prized that Emperor Taizong of Tang reportedly had it buried with him.