People's Daily Beijing, December 16 (Reporter Luo Zhizhi) According to the official website of the People's Bank of China, the People's Bank of China will successively issue a set of 2022 Lunar New Year commemorative coins from December 21. The set of commemorative coins has a total of 3 coins, including 1 gold commemorative coin, 1 silver commemorative coin, and 1 two-color copper alloy commemorative coin, all of which are legal tender of the People's Republic of China.
The obverse of this set of gold and silver commemorative coins is the national emblem of the People's Republic of China, and the name of the country and the year number "2022" are published.
The back of the 1-gram round gold commemorative coin is designed with the "Fu" character shape of Wen Zhengming of the Ming Dynasty, with a combination of panes, plum blossoms, residential eaves and other shapes, and the denomination is published.
The back of the 8-gram round silver commemorative coin is designed with the "Fu" character shape of Wen Zhengming of the Ming Dynasty, with a combination of shapes such as panes, paper-cut flowers, magpies, plum blossoms, and residential eaves, and the words "壬寅" and denominations are published.
The obverse of the two-color copper alloy commemorative coin is "Chinese Bank" and "10 Yuan", the Hanyu Pinyin letters "SHIYUAN" and the year number "2022", and the shading is lined with tuanhua pattern.
The main scene pattern on the back of the two-color copper alloy commemorative coin is a tiger image that combines traditional Chinese paper-cutting art with decorative New Year painting elements, and the lining pattern is flower lanterns and pine branches and pine cones, and the word "壬寅" is published on the left side of the coin.
In terms of commemorative coin specifications and issuance, 1 gram of round gold commemorative coins are general coins, containing 1 gram of pure gold, 10 mm in diameter, denomination of 10 yuan, color 99.9%, the maximum circulation of 100,000 pieces; 8 grams of round silver commemorative coins for general coins, containing sterling silver 8 grams, diameter 25 mm, denomination of 3 yuan, color 99.9%, the maximum circulation of 2,000,000 pieces; two-color copper alloy commemorative coins denomination of 10 yuan, diameter of 27 mm, material is two-color copper alloy, circulation of 120 million pieces ( Contains 10,000 historical currency archives).