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500 Yuan Spring Greeting
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 500 Yuan (500元, 五佰圓) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features an ornate traditional Chinese palace lantern depicted in high relief, its architectural detail rendered with fine precision, surrounded by radiating lines emanating outward to the coin's edge in a sunburst pattern. The circular legend reads '中华人民共和国' (People's Republic of China) in Chinese characters around the upper periphery. The date '1998' appears in the lower exergue. |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 1998 |
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This five-ounce gold issue belongs to China's Lunar New Year series, which the People's Bank of China launched in the 1980s as part of a broader push into the international bullion commemorative market. The 1998 piece corresponds to the Year of the Tiger. Production was tightly limited, as was standard for the series, and these coins were distributed primarily through foreign coin dealers and auction houses rather than domestic retail channels — the intended buyer was never the Chinese citizen.
KM#1180 is the five-ounce denomination within a multi-coin set issued that year, the largest and lowest-mintage piece of the group.