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The Four Gentlemen of Flowers Plum, 梅
| Location | People`s Republic of China |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Against a polished black field, detailed relief branches of a plum tree in full blossom spread across the design. A vertical legend in Chinese characters appears in the upper right portion of the field, with the large character 梅 (plum) prominently displayed. The piece is framed by an ornate relief border featuring a continuous ruyi cloud scroll pattern. |
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| Obverse lettering | 梅 华发寻春喜见梅 一株临路雪倍堆 (Translation: Plum White-haired man is looking for spring and is happy to see plum A tree by the road is covered with snow) |
| Reverse description | Against a polished black field, a large stylized cursive script character 福 (blessing/fortune) dominates the center in relief. The surrounding field is filled with a dense grid of the same character 福 rendered in a smaller, more formal script style, repeated many times to form a pattern representing one hundred blessings. No border decoration is present. |
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