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5 Yuan Pottery Storyteller Beating a Drum
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national emblem of the People's Republic of China is depicted in high relief at the centre of the field, featuring Tiananmen Gate surmounted by five stars and encircled by a wreath of grain ears tied with a ribbon at the base. The legend 中华人民共和国 (People's Republic of China) arcs along the upper periphery in Chinese characters, while the date 2025 appears in the lower exergue. The design is rendered in polished proof finish against a mirror field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 国 家 宝 藏 · 击 鼓 说 唱 俑 5 元 (Translation: National treasure · Pottery Storyteller Beating a Drum 5 Yuan) |
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This coin belongs to a long-running Chinese series celebrating Han dynasty tomb figurines, the painted ceramic sculptures excavated primarily from Sichuan burial sites dating to roughly the first through third centuries AD. The "storyteller" figures — musicians and narrators depicted mid-performance, often with exaggerated expressions — were among the most distinctive funerary objects of the Eastern Han period, intended to provide entertainment for the deceased in the afterlife. The originals now held in the Sichuan Museum remain touchstones for Chinese ceramic scholarship.