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Token - Chinese Zodiac Loong
| Location | People's Republic of China |
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| Composition | Copper (copper alloy) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a central square hole surrounded by a relief depiction of a sinuous dragon (loong) coiling around the lower field. Above the square hole, the Chinese character 辰 (Chen, the fifth Earthly Branch associated with the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac) is rendered in bold relief. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the eight trigrams (Bagua) arranged symmetrically around the central square hole, each trigram rendered in raised relief with horizontal broken and unbroken lines. The design references the classic Taoist cosmological arrangement, likely the Later Heaven (Hou Tian) sequence. |
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| Mintage | ND |
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