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800 Yuan Panda
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a family group of three giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) in a naturalistic bamboo forest setting, rendered in extraordinarily fine relief with iridescent prismatic colour effects applied selectively to the pandas' fur and bamboo foliage. An adult panda perches atop a rocky outcrop in the upper centre, a second adult sits at the right feeding on bamboo shoots, and a playful cub reclines in the lower centre. The denomination 800元 appears at the left field, with the weight and fineness inscription 50g Au.999 curving along the upper right rim. |
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The 800 yuan face value is purely nominal — the 50g gold Panda has carried a legal tender denomination since the series launched in 1982, but no piece has ever circulated at face. The annual design change policy, established from the outset, was a deliberate strategy to drive collector demand by ensuring no two years are directly interchangeable, a model that proved influential on subsequent bullion programs worldwide.
KM#2894 is the 2025 issue, the first Panda series entry priced against a gold spot market that briefly exceeded $2,700 USD per troy ounce in late 2024.