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50 Yuan Year of the Pig
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 50 Yuan (50元, 伍拾圆) |
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| Reverse lettering | 丁亥年 50元 |
| Edge | Reeded |
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China's lunar gold series has been issued annually since 1981, making the 2007 Pig the twenty-seventh entry in an unbroken run that began under Deng Xiaoping's economic liberalization push. These small-denomination gold pieces were never intended as circulating currency — the face value is purely nominal, a legal fiction that allows the People's Bank to issue them as bullion while maintaining sovereign coin status.
The 3.1g weight corresponds to one-tenth of a troy ounce, a sizing borrowed directly from the Panda bullion program introduced in 1982.