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Replica - 1 Yuan Commemorative Republic of China
| Issuer | Republic of China |
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| Year | 1929 |
| Type | Contemporary counterfeit coin |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of a male figure, depicted in civilian dress with a mandarin collar jacket, occupying the central field. The portrait is rendered in low relief with a slightly frontal orientation, the subject's gaze directed toward the viewer. A circular legend in Chinese characters arcs around the upper periphery, reading 中華民國十八年 (Republic of China, Year 18), with a beaded border encircling the entire design. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The 1929 Yuan was issued to commemorate the state funeral and official interment of Sun Yat-sen at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing — a ceremony that took place in June of that year, nearly four years after his death in Beijing. The Nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek used the occasion as a deliberate act of political consolidation, binding the new republic's legitimacy to Sun's revolutionary image.
This piece is a replica. The original was struck in silver; the copper-nickel-iron composition here is the tell, along with the substantial weight discrepancy from genuine examples.