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50 Yuan Year of the Rooster
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse lettering | 50元 癸酉 天津春 |
| Edge | Reeded |
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The 1993 Chinese Lunar series 150-yuan gold and 50-yuan silver issues marked a period when the People's Bank of China was aggressively expanding its bullion and commemorative program for foreign exchange revenue — hard currency the state needed badly in the early reform era. The 155.52g five-ounce silver format was a deliberate premium product aimed at overseas collector markets, particularly the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia and North America.
KM#512 is the proof issue; mintages for these five-ounce lunar pieces were tightly controlled and officially reported in the low thousands.