800 Yuan Panda

China's annual Panda gold series has carried a rotating reverse design every year since 1982 — with the sole exception of 1995 and 2001, when the design was repeated, triggering enough collector protest that the People's Bank reverted to the annual-change policy permanently. The 2016 redenomination from gram-weight face values to yuan-based face values was a bureaucratic adjustment that quietly made earlier issues technically non-fungible with post-2016 strikes under Chinese legal tender law.

The 50-gram format was introduced to give institutional buyers a mid-tier option between the 30-gram and 100-gram issues.