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500 Yuan Deng Xiaoping, Return of Macau to China
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Full-length effigy of Deng Xiaoping standing in three-quarter view facing left, rendered in high relief against a panoramic cityscape background depicting the Macau skyline with modern high-rise buildings and a bridge. The trilingual legend ONE COUNTRY TWO SYSTEMS / UN PAÍS DOS SISTEMAS / 一国两制 appears in the upper field in Latin and Chinese characters. The denomination 500 is inscribed to the right, with a small circular mintmark below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 一国两制 ONE COUNTRY TWO SYSTEMS UN PAÍS DOS SISTEMAS 500 |
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Issued in the year of Hong Kong's handover, this coin anticipates the Macau reversion by two years — that transfer wouldn't occur until December 1999. The pairing of Deng Xiaoping with the Macau theme is posthumous; Deng died in February 1997, months before Hong Kong was handed over and well before Macau returned. The "one country, two systems" formula he engineered applied to both territories, which likely explains the commemorative logic, but he did not live to see either handover completed.