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Token - Yuan Tian Shang Di
| Location | People`s Republic of China |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Four large Chinese characters in raised relief arranged around a central square hole, reading 元天上帝 (Yuan Tian Shang Di, meaning 'Supreme Emperor of the Primordial Heaven'), a Taoist deity. The characters are boldly cast, one in each quadrant, within a plain raised border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 元天上帝 |
| Reverse description | The reverse features the eight Bagua (trigrams) of the I Ching arranged radially around the central square hole, each trigram accompanied by its corresponding Chinese character. The trigrams and characters are cast in bold relief, forming a classic Taoist cosmological diagram. The eight characters read 乾坤巽兑艮震离坎, representing the eight fundamental symbols of the universe. |
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