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50 Yuan Golden Sun Bird
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Weight | 3 g |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a stylized rendition of the Golden Sun Bird ornament, an ancient Shu culture gold artifact unearthed at Jinsha, Chengdu, depicting a radiating solar disc with twelve curved flame-like rays encircling a central ring, evoking the flight of four birds around the sun. The design is rendered in fine detail against a mirror-polished proof field. Inscriptions in Chinese characters identifying the artifact as 国宝金沙太阳神鸟金饰 (National Treasure, Golden Sun Bird Ornament) appear within the design, accompanied by the face value 50元. |
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The Gold Sun Bird coin draws from a motif discovered at the Jinsha archaeological site in Chengdu in 2001 — a paper-thin gold disc dated to roughly 1200–1000 BC, identified as a ritual object of the ancient Shu culture. In 2005, China's National Cultural Heritage Administration designated the Jinsha Sun Bird image as the official emblem of Chinese cultural heritage, which is what placed it on this denomination at all.