Chinese Lunar Calendar (silver)

Silver commemorative coins of China with the animals of the lunar calendar: every year of the twelve-year cycle has its own design. The coins are issued under the authority of the People's Bank of China and go on sale through China Gold Coin (CNGC). The face value in yuan is symbolic here: the coins are not meant for payments, and their price is set by .999 silver and collector demand. The series is kept apart from the bimetallic ten-yuan coins of 'Chinese Lunar Calendar (bimetal)', which can be found in circulation and cost an order of magnitude less. The series includes the finishes of a year: plain, coloured and others, and each is entered as a separate coin so that prices are not mixed.