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[i]The People's Bank of China, the central bank, said on Monday that it would issue a set of gold and silver coins on Oct. 8 to commemorate the success of the country's maiden spacewalk. The issuance comprises 30,000 gold coins, with a face value of 150 yuan (22 U.S. dollars) each, and 60,000 silver coins, with a face value of 10 yuan each. The head of each coin will have the solar system design while the tail will bear a color portrait of a taikonaut conducting a spacewalk and the Chinese words "To commemorate the success of China's first spacewalk", the central bank said. The coins are produced by Shenyang Mint and will be distributed by the [URL=http://www.chinagoldcoin.net/shidian/2008-9-29/index.html]China Gold Coin Inc.[/URL], it said.[/i]
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