China 1997 10 yuan KM-1031
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This specimen was lot 2958 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $53.55. The catalog description[1] noted, "CHINA (PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC): AR 10 yuan, 1997, Eastern unicorn // Western unicorn, prooflike, Choice Unc." This unicorn series of silver bullion coins, designed to appeal to western and eastern buyers, ran for a number of years but never took off the way the pandas did.
Recorded mintage: 8,000 proofs + an unknown number in uncirculated + 5,000 in gold.
Specification: 31.1 g, 0.999 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-1031.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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