Description
China Coins Limited; Economic Information & Agency, Published 1990. Hardcover, 208 pp.; 29 cm; First Edition; Vol. 2 (1988-1990) only; text in English and Chinese; illustrated in color throughout.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Off-white embossed leather-grain boards, gilt lettering on front and spine. Light bumping to corners. Binding tight. A few small spots to front free endpaper and Chinese title page. Otherwise unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket (waterfall at Jiuzhaigou) with original pink printed wraparound band; light rubbing and small nicks to edges, some creasing at top edge of band. Not price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Official catalogue of every commemorative gold and silver coin and medal minted and issued by the People's Bank of China, China Mint Company and China Gold Coin Corporation from 1988 to 1990, with full-size and enlarged photographs of each piece and the mint's specifications and mintage figures current to June 1990. Compiled by China Coins Limited under Shen Jiaju, its director and general manager and a director of the Chinese Numismatic Society. Sections cover the Seoul Olympics and Asian Games issues, Dragon and Phoenix, Year of the Snake and Horse, Panda gold, silver, platinum and palladium, Historical Figures (Bi Sheng, Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan), Rare Wildlife, World Cultural Figures (Homer, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Edison), Folk Gods medals, American Numismatic Association and international coin show medals, and the Fourth Set Renminbi. Vol. 1, published in autumn 1988, covers the 1979-1987 issues and is not included.