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50 Yuan Year of the Monkey
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 50 Yuan (50元, 伍拾圆) |
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| Obverse description | The national emblem of the People's Republic of China depicted centrally, featuring Tiananmen Gate beneath a large five-pointed star flanked by four smaller stars, all set within a wreath of grain stalks and a cogwheel at the base. The inscription 中华人民共和国 (People's Republic of China) arcs around the upper border in Chinese characters. The date 2016 appears in the lower exergue. The design is rendered in high relief against a polished field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The 2016 issue marks the first year the Chinese Gold Panda series used a weight-based denomination structure benchmarked to grams rather than troy ounces, a change implemented alongside China's formal adoption of metric specifications across its entire bullion coin program that year. The switch caused considerable confusion among dealers accustomed to the prior ounce-based system, and early catalog references from 2016 are inconsistent as a result.