Special coins for new year
( 2003-11-22 15:05) (Xinhua)
The People's Bank of China yesterday issued a set of new commemorative coins
to mark the coming Chinese lunar year of the Monkey.
The set includes six gold coins and six silver, the central bank said. The
coins bear the designs and pictures of the Great Wall and monkey-shaped
paper-cuts, a tradition of the Chinese to celebrate the lunar new year, also
called the Spring Festival. The central bank has issued special coins for lunar
new years annually in recent years. In China, people use a dozen animals to mark
different years on a rotating basis.
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