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China to issue 2020 panda commemorative coins
China's central bank will issue a set of gold and silver coins featuring pandas on Oct. 30. All twelve coins, the 2020 edition, will be legal tender in China, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) said on its website. The front side of each coin features the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, the main structure of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. All coins feature a panda eating bamboo on the reverse side, the PBOC said. One of the refined gold coins, with a diameter of 90 mm, contains 1,000 grams of 99.9 percent pure gold and has a denomination of 10,000 yuan (about 1,417.3 U.S. dollars). There will be a maximum of 1,000 ... (full story)