China Issues Commemorative CoinsThe People's Bank of China (PBOC) announced that it is issuing a set of colored gold and silver commemorative coins Thursday featuring Chinese folk fairy tales.The set of one gold coin and three silver coins is legal currency in China, a PBOC spokesman said. The half-ounce gold coin has a denomination of 200 yuan, with an issuing amount of 8,800; the two one-ounce silver coins have the same denomination of 10 yuan and the same issuing amount of 30,000 each; the five-ounce silver coin, the only rectangular-shaped coin in the set, has a denomination of 50 yuan and an issuing amount of 10,000. |
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