China 1997 100 yuan KM-1081
This specimen was lot 5131 in Künker sale 354 (Osnabrück, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €1,400 (about US$1,948 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"CHINA, Volksrepublik. 100 Yuan 1997. Yellow River Culture. 15,55 g Feingold. GOLD. R Nur 3.000 Exemplare geprägt. Polierte Platte. (people's republic of China, one hundred yuan of 1997, Yellow River culture, only 3,000 struck, proof.)"
Altho the half ounce gold NCLT's were usually denominated fifty yuan, this one was issued as a hundred yuan. Wikipedia comments,
"Yellow River civilization or Huanghe civilization (Chinese: 黃河文明), Hwan‐huou civilization is an ancient Chinese civilization that prospered in the middle and lower basin of the Yellow River. Agriculture was started in the flood plain of the Yellow River, and before long, through flood control and the irrigation of the Yellow River, cities were developed and political power found reinforcement. One of the 'four major civilizations of the ancient world', it is often included in textbooks of East Asian history, but the idea of including only the Yellow River civilization as one of the four biggest ancient civilizations has become outdated as a result of the discovery of other early cultures in China, such as the Yangtze and Liao civilizations."
The period of the Yellow River Culture spans seven thousand years.
Recorded mintage: 3,000.
Specification: 15.55 g, 0.999 fine gold, 0.500 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: KM 1081, Fr-182; Wang/Chan/Lin CC-1019.
- 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]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Künker Auktion 354: Munzen und Medaillen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. Braunschweig-Luneburg. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2021.
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