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50 New Dollars Sun Yat-sen
| Issuer | Taiwan |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Currency | New dollar (1949-date) |
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| Obverse description | Large bare-headed effigy of Sun Yat-sen facing left, occupying the central field in high relief. A Chinese commemorative legend arcs across the upper portion of the coin, reading from right to left, with a further date inscription arranged vertically in two columns along the lower field. The portrait is rendered in a bold, sculptural style characteristic of mid-twentieth-century Republic of China commemorative coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | 念紀長誕年百生先山中孫父國 日二十月一十年四十五國民華中 (Translation: Memory of the Centenary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen`s Birthday November 12, year 54 of Republic of China) |
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Issued to mark the centenary of Sun Yat-sen's birth, this was Taiwan's first commemorative silver coin under the Republic of China government on the island — a government that still formally claimed to represent all of China. The timing carried pointed political weight: the mainland PRC had held its own commemorations in 1956, and Taipei's 1965 issue was, in part, a counter-assertion of legitimacy over the founding father's memory.
Mintage was modest, and the coins saw little actual circulation.