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80 Yuan Auspicious Culture - Ginkgo
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 80 Yuan (80元) |
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| Reverse script | Chinese |
| Reverse lettering | 生生不息 80元 |
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Part of the People's Bank of China's long-running Auspicious Culture series, which has drawn on classical Chinese motifs since the early 2010s to target both domestic collectors and overseas Chinese communities. The ginkgo — one of the oldest surviving tree species on earth, essentially unchanged for 270 million years — carries deep associations in Chinese culture with longevity and resilience, making it a logical subject for a series explicitly built around auspicious symbolism.
The 5g/.999 gold format places this squarely in the PBC's small-denomination collector coin tier, where limited mintages and themed series packaging drive secondary market premiums well above melt.