The 16th Asian Games will be held in Guangzhou China in 466 Days.The Guangzhou Asian Games will feature a total number of 473 sport disciplines. The 16th Asian Games will be held between November. 12 - November. 27 2010. It is the second bid that China has won after Beijing hosted the 11th Asian Games in 1990. China's central bank has announced that it will issue a set of gold and silver coins on July 28 to commemorate the 16th Asian Games.
The set includes one gold coin, which weighs a quarter ounce and a silver coin weighing one ounce. A maximum of 30,000 gold coins will be issued with a face value of 100 yuan (14.6 U.S. dollars) each. Up to 60,000 silver coins will be issued with a face value of 10 yuan each. The purity of the coins is 99.9 percent.
The obverse of both the gold and silver coins features the Emblem of the 16th Asian Games, while the reverse of the gold coin shows the Games Mascots and the track and that of the silver coin shows sporting images of the athlete and diver. The coins are produced by Shenzhen Guobao Mint and Shanghai Mint. They will be distributed by the China Gold Coin Inc., said the central bank.
The set includes one gold coin, which weighs a quarter ounce and a silver coin weighing one ounce. A maximum of 30,000 gold coins will be issued with a face value of 100 yuan (14.6 U.S. dollars) each. Up to 60,000 silver coins will be issued with a face value of 10 yuan each. The purity of the coins is 99.9 percent.
The obverse of both the gold and silver coins features the Emblem of the 16th Asian Games, while the reverse of the gold coin shows the Games Mascots and the track and that of the silver coin shows sporting images of the athlete and diver. The coins are produced by Shenzhen Guobao Mint and Shanghai Mint. They will be distributed by the China Gold Coin Inc., said the central bank.
Source: Xinhua.net
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The design of the Games emblem and mascots is derived from a legend about the City of Guangzhou: As the legend goes, a long time ago, the farm lands in Guangzhou ran dry, food could not be grown and the people experienced a famine. They could do nothing but pray to the heavens for luck. Moved by their piety, Five Immortals descended from the sky, riding on goats with coats of different colors, each holding rice ears in its mouth. The Immortals gave the rice ears to the people and declared that the land would be free from famine.
Afterwards, they disappeared into the sky. The five goats that were left behind turn into stone. From that time on, Guangzhou reaped a bumper harvest of grain every year and grew into one of the most prosperous cities in China. For this reason Guangzhou is also known as the City of Goats or the City of Rice Ears. The Statue of the Five Goats in Guangzhou's Yue Xiu Park is a reminder of this legend and has, over the years, become the symbol of the city and one of its most well known landmarks.
"Le Yangyang” is name of the leader of our five Goats and the name which refers to all of the 16th Asian Games Mascots, each of them sporty and cute, and each serving as an Official Mascot. The Mascots embody a part of Guangzhou’s unique history and culture and each Goat has an individual name that is distinctly Cantonese in style: A Xiang, A He, A Ru, A Yi and Le Yangyang. When you put their names together, Xiang He Ru Yi Le Yangyang - meaning Peace, Harmony and Great Happiness, with everything going as you wish - they fully express the people of Guangzhou’s hope that the 16th Asian Games bring peace, prosperity, success and happiness to the people of Asia and fulfill their, and our, Vision of a “Thrilling Games and Harmonious Asia”.
source: gz2010.cn
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I am looking for the said website that selling 16th Asian Games Commemorative coins but look like it cannot be found. I only found information about which company doing the mint. I had been browsing to other China website offering commemorative coin and I found out that China coin design is not that appealing then other country commemorative. I also found out that China's massive foreign exchange reserves are the largest in the world, comprising a total of $2132 billion or $2.1 trillion dollars' worth. Just don't forget to book your China tours in November 2010 or have any of you book a ticket to China lately?
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