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50 Yuan Guilin Scenery - Elephant Trunk Hill
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Second Rénmínbì (1955-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a finely detailed relief view of Elephant Trunk Hill (象鼻山), the iconic karst rock formation in Guilin, rendered with highly sculptural precision. The natural stone arch, which resembles an elephant drinking from the Li River, is shown reflected in the calm waters below, with lush vegetation and distant rocky peaks framing the composition. A small pagoda is visible atop the hill in the upper right of the design. The inscription 象鼻山 appears in the upper left field in Chinese characters, with the issuer legend 中华人民共和国 and the date 1998 positioned along the lower border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Part of a multi-year gold series celebrating China's most recognized natural landmarks, this 1998 issue falls within a period when the People's Bank of China was aggressively expanding its commemorative bullion program to court both domestic collectors and overseas Chinese diaspora markets. Mintages for the Guilin landscape series were kept deliberately tight — typically under 5,000 pieces per design — to sustain secondary market premiums.
Elephant Trunk Hill sits at the confluence of the Li and Peach Blossom rivers in Guilin city proper, its distinctive shape formed by karst erosion over roughly 360 million years of geological process.