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Chinese Gold Coins

Gold Coins are issued from the the People’s Republic of China official mint. They have two general coin types: the Chinese Panda and the Chinese Unicorn. The former is the more popular among the two and is the one which is usually sold or bought in the market. The Chinese Unicorn was issued on 1986 and has a limited mintage hence making it quite unpopular with gold coin collectors. It features the Chinese unicorn in its obverse and the unicorn of the West on its reverse. The Chinese unicorn is also made from high quality gold – 24 karat – and is being sold at a weight of a twentieth part of an ounce. The coin has a face value of five Yuan and can be bought in the United States in almost mint condition.

The Chinese Panda is the most popular Chinese gold coin. They were first issued by the Chinese mint in 1982 and was always issued with a different figure of a panda each year. The trend was stopped however during 2001 and so both of those that were issued from 2001 and in 2002 contained the same Pandas. The variety of Pandas makes it a very collectible item and also its gold content. Proof types of this coin were only issued from 1986 to 1995 which makes them a rare commodity to come by.

There is also another Chinese gold coin which is quite popular among collectors but it does not really look like a coin at all. It is the China Year of the Monkey coin which is molded like a fan. It weighs for one-half of an ounce and is also available in the United States. This coin features the Chinese monkey and also the year and place of mintage.

Aside from them, the Chinese government also issued several other gold coins each depicting a different object and also a specific important event in history. In 1979, the Chinese Mint struck 13,000 pieces of a commemorative coin for the first anniversary of the International Children’s Year. It had a face value of 450 Yuan and is made from a lower karat of gold about 90%. The coin depicted two small children planting a tree. In 1993, the Peacock gold coin was issued with a fineness of 99.9% pure gold and with a face value of 100 Yuan. There is also the Endangered Wildlife gold coin which was released in 1994 that depicts the Chinese panda as an endangered animal. The coin has a 91.6% fineness and is made of eight grams of gold. In 1995, China issued the Dinosaur commemorative coin weighing one-half of an ounce. It is made from 24 karat gold and features the Wooden Pagoda in Shanxi in its obverse. The reverse of the coin carries the image of a dinosaur. The coin carried a face value of fifty Yuan and only two thousand pieces were struck for this issue.

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The last type of Chinese gold coin is the Guilin Scenery commemorative gold coin. It is rectangular in shape in contrast with the traditional type of coin and it showcases several famous landmarks of China such as the Flowery Bridge and the Elephant Trunk Hill in its obverse. It is also made from 24 karat gold and weighs one-half of an ounce.

Gold Panda Coin

The Chinese panda coin is one of the most popular types of gold coins in the world. It is issued by the People’s Republic of China but it is available almost anywhere in the world. The coin was first issued in 1982 and they have been sold at several weights and in various depictions of the Chinese Panda making them one of the more highly valued gold coins to collect in the world.

The first gold coin that was issued in China in bullion type, the Chinese Panda is available in several different weights – one, one-half, a quarter, and one-tenth of an ounce. The one-twentieth part of an ounce type of Chinese Panda was only added after a year.  The designs of the Chinese Panda comes is a newer form every single year making them one of the most collectible item by numismatics. This was however prohibited by the Chinese government in 2001, making the 2001 and the 2002 issue similar in design. These coins are struck in different mints in China and they do not have any minting mark like those which can be found in gold coins in the US. What is does contain however, are the date of issuance, the face value and also the obverse design of the coin.

The coin has the Temple of Heaven in its obverse and also the Chinese inscription of the People’s Republic of China. It also has the year of issuance and also the indication of whether it is a commemorative gold coin or the theme of the coin. The reverse side of the coin features the Chinese Panda which is different every single year. The success of this coin can only be seen in the amount of coins that were sold during the 1980s. It was widely used not just for gold coin collecting but also as embellishments in jewelries such as bracelets and earrings and also in earrings. The smaller sizes of the coins made them very versatile not just as an investment but also for accessories.

The design of the panda was however halted in 2001 when the People’s Republic of China adopted a new policy but the ensuing clamor for the usual method – which is having a different design each year – brought the changing designs back in 2003. The coins are officially issued by the China Gold Coin Corporation and the official distributor in the US is the Panda America. The coins are used as a legal tender in China although the actual value of the coin exceeds its stated face value either 500, 100 or 25 Yuan. A one gram Chinese Panda was especially issued in 1991 to make the Chinese Panda more affordable for the public and had a face value of three Yuan.

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The size and dimensions of a Chinese Panda depends on the weight of the coin which can range from one ounce up to one-twentieth of an ounce. There were weightier coins that were issued but the standard one ounce coin has a diameter of 27 mm and a thickness of 1.85 mm.