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Latest revision as of 15:05, 9 October 2025
This specimen was part of lot 1619 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $26,400. The catalog description[1] noted, "CHINA (PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC): 5-coin gold proof set, 1993, KM-546-47 & 549-51, Fr-68-73, SET includes: 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 yuan featuring Guanyin (Kuan Yin), the Bodhisattva of Compassion, seated in a lotus blossom, all with P (proof) mark, accompanied with original People's Bank of China red case of issue and card cover, with COA numbered 0862 and Goddess of Mercy card, an official mintage of 1000 sets but only around 500 sets were produced; set of 5 gold coins, RR. This is a very rarely encountered set on the market and the last example we could find sold was in 2012!" The 100 yuan NCLT's for 1993 included KM 477, 480, KM 508, 513, 514, 515, KM 516, 523, |KM 534, 535, 539, 551 (shown here), 574, 592 and 598.
Recorded mintage: 1,000.
Specification: 31.103 g, 0.999 fine gold.
Catalog reference: KM 551, Fr-68.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- 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 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
Links:
- 1992 100 yuan, panda, 1 oz gold
- 1992 100 yuan, Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, figure skating
- 1992 100 yuan, emperor Da Yu
- 1992 100 yuan, empress Wu Zetian
- 1992 100 yuan, Year of the Monkey 12 oz silver
- 1993 5 yuan, panda, 1/20 oz gold
- 1993 5 yuan, goddess Kuan Yin, 1/20 oz gold
- 1993 5 yuan, ox lantern
- 1993 5 yuan, unicorn statue
- 1993 10 yuan, Chinese gods
- 1993 10 yuan, panda, 1/10 oz gold
- 1993-P 10 yuan, panda, 1 oz silver
- 1993 10 yuan, panda, 1 oz silver
- 1993 10 yuan, 1/10 oz platinum panda
- 1993 10 yuan, 1 oz silver Year of the Rooster
- 1993 10 yuan, goddess Kuan Yin, 1/10 oz gold
- 1993 10 yuan, 1/10 oz gold peacocks
- 1993 25 yuan, Chinese gods
- 1993 25 yuan, panda, ¼ oz gold
- 1993 25 yuan, goddess Kuan Yin, ¼ oz gold
- 1993 25 yuan, Two Peacocks
- 1993 50 yuan, panda, 5 oz silver
- 1993 50 yuan, terracotta army
- 1993 50 yuan, 5 oz silver Year of the Rooster
- 1993 50 yuan, goddess Kuan Yin, ½ oz gold
- 1993 50 yuan, panda, ½ oz gold
- 1993 50 yuan, Marco Polo
- 1993 100 yuan, panda, 1 oz gold
- 1993 100 yuan, invention of the yin and yang
- 1993 100 yuan, Year of the Rooster, 1 oz gold
- 1993 100 yuan, Mao Zedong
- Coins and currency dated 1993