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  • 10 New Dollars 1995, Y# 555, Taiwan, Republic of China, 50th Anniversary of Taiwan Retrocession
  • 10 New Dollars 1995, Y# 555, Taiwan, Republic of China, 50th Anniversary of Taiwan Retrocession
Description

The island of Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, was inhabited by aborigines before the 17th century, when Dutch and Spanish colonies opened the island to mass Han immigration. After a brief rule by the Kingdom of Tungning, the island was annexed in 1683 by the Qing dynasty, the last dynasty of China. The Qing ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895 after the Sino-Japanese War. While Taiwan was under Japanese rule, the Republic of China (ROC) was established on the mainland in 1912 after the fall of the Qing dynasty. Following the Japanese surrender to the Allies in 1945, the ROC took control of Taiwan. However, the resumption of the Chinese Civil War led to the ROC's loss of the mainland to the Communists, and the flight of the ROC government to Taiwan in 1949.

Obverse

Depicts a large island of Taiwan between dates on a globe. The 84th year of the Republic and the state name (Republic of China) above. Inscription "50th Anniversary of Taiwan's Retrocession" below.

Following the Chinese imperial tradition of using the sovereign's era name and year of reign, official Republic of China documents use the Republic system of numbering years in which the first year was 1912, the year of the founding of the Republic of China.

年四十八國民華中
1945
1995
念紀年週十五復光灣台

Reverse

Value surrounded by the legend (seal script) "Working together to make Taiwan great" above, "Living and working in harmony" below.

Seal script (Chinese: 篆書; pinyin: zhuànshū) is an ancient style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BCE.

灣台大営経同共
圓拾
10
體同共命生的共與戚休聚搏

Edge

10 New Dollars

50th Anniversary of Taiwan Retrocession

Y# 555
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Copper Nickel
Weight 7.5 g
Diameter 26 mm
Thickness 1.8 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Central Mint of China (CMC)

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