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50 Yuan Mogao Grotto - Dun Huang Art
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 中国石窟艺术·敦煌 2001 |
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| Reverse script | Chinese |
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Issued as part of China's long-running commemorative gold program dedicated to UNESCO World Heritage Sites, this piece honors the Mogao cave complex near Dunhuang in Gansu Province — a site containing over 490 painted grottoes accumulated across roughly a thousand years of Buddhist patronage, from the 4th century through the Yuan dynasty. The caves were effectively sealed and forgotten by the outside world until a Daoist monk named Wang Yuanlu rediscovered a walled-off library chamber in 1900, containing an estimated 50,000 manuscripts and paintings.
The 2001 gold issue is one of several denominations in a multi-coin Dunhuang set from that year, paired with a larger 200 Yuan piece.