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50 Yuan Panda
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Weight | 15.55 g |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse lettering | 含纯金½盎司 成色 .999 50元 ½ozAu |
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China's Panda gold series launched in 1982 with a design change policy that became its defining commercial hook — the reverse image updates annually, making each year a discrete collectible rather than a continuous type. The 1989 issue arrived during one of the most politically volatile years in the People's Republic's history; the Tiananmen Square crackdown in June of that year had no effect on mint operations, but substantially disrupted Western distribution networks, leaving some allocations stranded mid-shipment.
KM#226 is the 15.55g half-ounce denomination, distinguishable from the superficially similar quarter-ounce 25 Yuan piece primarily by weight rather than visual design scale.