World gold coins witht the face value 10
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| Origin/Country: |
HONG KONG |
| Item Description: |
$10 1994 BI-MET BAUHINIA FLOWER Au - Ag |
| Full Grade: |
NGC PF 69 ULTRA CAMEO |
| Owner: |
V.M. |
Owner Comments:
18.30 g., 0.917 Gold 0.5395 oz. AGW, 24 mm.
Ruler: Elizabeth II
Obv: Bauhinia fower
Rev: Numerals 10 and denomination in Chinese and English
In order to prepare the transition of Hong Kong from Great Britain to China, the coins issues in the last years of British rule no longer feature the monarch's efigy. Instead, the Bauhinia flower is depicted.
The Bauhinia flower appears on Hong Kong's coat of arms, its flag and its coins; its Chinese name has also been frequently shortened as 紫荊/紫荆 (洋 yáng means 'foreign' in Chinese, and this would presumably be deemed inappropriate by the PRC government, although 紫荊/紫荆 refers to another genus called Cercis. A statue of the plant has been erected in Golden Bauhinia Square in Hong Kong.