File:1 cent - Guangdong Province, Five Goat Coin (五羊錢) - Republic 25 (1936) Primal Trek 02.jpg
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English: A copper-alloy coin issued by the provincial government of Guangdong during the "Mainland period" in the history of the Republic of China. This particular 1936 specimen was among the coins donated to the Zhuhai Museum by a Chinese coin collector hid his coins during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) of the People's Republic of China to save them from the irate Red Guards who were intent on “destroying the old” culture of China and all of its (physical) symbols. The scan of this coin displays its remarkable detail for its design and use of various traditional Chinese symbols.
Because the “five (5) goat” coin (五羊錢) manufactured in the Guangdong Province was determined not to be in accordance with the newly adopted national “legal tender”, or "Fabi" (法币 / 法幣), reforms passed by the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China of 1936, these "five (5) goat" coins were recalled from circulation and were subsequently melted down. This meant that after circulating for only a very short period of time only a small numbers of them have remained extend into the present time and at auctions they now (as of 2011) typically sell for more than $ 20,000 (twenty-thousand United States Dollars). This is the denomination side of the coin, which like the dated side is also rich in symbolic design. To the right side of the round centre hole are two Traditional Chinese characters which mean “one (1) cent”, which in Mandarin Chinese is pronounced as "Yi Xian" (壹仙). What is interesting is that then used Traditional Chinese character for the word “cent” (仙) is used because it sounds like the English word “cent” (or "Xian" in Mandarin Chinese). However, this Traditional Chinese character (仙) also means “immortal” meaning that it's also connected to the ancient myth of the City of Guangzhou being saved by immortals, and thus symbolises the five (5) immortals that (in the ancient story) descended from the heavens to save the Cantonese people from the famine that plagued them at the time. The left side of the coin (the area left of the round centre hole) displays a rice stalk with six (6) branches which refers to the rice stalks carried in the mouths of the goats in the ancient Chinese myth about the city of Guangzhou. For this reason this stalk of rice is also among the official emblems of the city of Guangzhou, Guangdong. Surrounding the hole is a clever design based on the Traditional Chinese character for “goat”, which in the Mandarin Chinese language is pronounced as "Yang" (羊). In fact, it displays 5 (five) such characters in ancient Chinese seal script placed together. What at first (1st) glance appears to be a Traditional Chinese character design is in fact “five (5) goats” connected in a circle. The goat was a symbol of “good luck” to the ancient Chinese people and was also frequently used in sacrifice offerings to their ancestors in rituals. For this reason, the Mandarin Chinese word for “auspicious” or “lucky”, which is pronounced as "Xiang" (祥) also includes the word “goat” (羊) as part of the Traditional Chinese character. |
Date | Republic 25 (1936). |
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Author | The provincial government of Guangdong, Republic of China. |
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