China Panda precious-metal coins
Silver PandaA changing silver canvas
The Silver Panda story begins with distinct early issues in 1983. It develops through an ounce-era collecting lens, a metric transition and today's 30-gram standard—always animated by a changing annual reverse.
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Early silver prelude
The first Silver Panda was not today's bullion standard.
The 1983 issue belongs at the beginning of the Silver Panda story, but it must retain its own identity: a 27-gram, .900 silver, 10-yuan proof-quality object from the early pre-standard period.
That distinction makes the later ounce and metric structures easier to understand without inventing a single unchanged modern series from 1983 onward.
Toward a stable silver lens
Prelude, ounce era, metric standard.
The Silver Panda chronology is continuous as a research story, but its product structures are not interchangeable.
Early pre-standard issues
Approximately 27g, .900 silver and proof quality in the current evidence record.
Ounce-oriented collecting
A distinct technical and collecting lens before metric conversion, with annual exceptions kept visible.
Modern 30g standard
The clearest present-day bullion lens: 30 grams, .999 silver and 10-yuan face value.
Metric transition
2015 → 2016
The usual weight and fineness inscriptions pause in 2015. In 2016, the 30-gram standard gives the modern Silver Panda a clear metric structure.
This exact 2016 reverse shows the climbing panda alongside the new 30g inscription.
30g standardAnnual design archive
Five reverses, five ways to read the program.
Selected objects connect early silver, the metric transition and the current narrative without flattening four decades into dozens of equal cards.
Early prelude
A distinct first silver object.
Love passed on
The sixth chapter makes a former cub the mother at the center of the design.
Metric standard
The modern 30g lens begins.
The story opens
Mother and newborn begin chapter one.
Current chapter
Two resting pandas form chapter eight.
2019–2028 framework
A narrative in silver.
Silver's larger 40-millimetre canvas makes the issued “Decade of Love” chapters especially legible. Only designs issued through 2026 are shown.
Chapter 1 · The story opens
Chapter 6 · Love passed on
Chapter 8 · Companionship
Annual register preview
Browse by era before browsing by year.
A future chronology can group technical and artistic chapters, then reveal selected annual records without presenting a forty-year card wall.
Early prelude
Proof-quality and pre-standard objects retain their own identity.
Ounce lens
Annual designs viewed through the established one-ounce format.
Metric transition
Inscription pause followed by the 30g standard.
Living narrative
Issued chapters of the modern love story.
Modern Silver standard
A stable technical anchor for a changing design.
Since 2016, the principal standard Silver Panda combines a fixed technical structure with a reverse that continues to change annually.
- Weight
- 30g
- Silver fineness
- .999
- Face value
- 10 yuan
- Diameter
- 40mm