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50 Yuan Bronze Ware
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 2013 |
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| Reverse lettering | 50元 商·司母戊鼎 |
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This piece belongs to China's long-running Bronze Ware series, which the People's Bank of China has issued annually since 1981 to document the country's archaeological heritage in precious metal. The 2013 issue draws from the Western Zhou and Shang dynasty bronze vessel tradition — a period when ritual bronzes functioned as instruments of political legitimacy, not decoration, and their ownership was tightly regulated by feudal rank.
Five-ounce issues in this series are notoriously prone to spotting from the high-relief casting process, a known production characteristic rather than a storage fault.