Panda America Singapore International Coin Fair

1 kg Proof Gold Panda on display

My purchase at the fair

2011 5 oz Silver Panda Coin

The new box has one restrainer instead of 2

COA shows mintage of 20,000

'2011' is struck with thicker fonts

Position of the '50 Yuan' is lower than that of 2010

2011 Chinese Panda Coin

The 2011 Chinese Panda coins would be issued on 10 December 2010. Like in 2010, there would be 7 gold and 3 silver panda coins for 2011.

The planned maximum mintage is as follows, previous year mintage in ( ):

2011 1 oz Gold Panda Reverse

2011 1 oz Gold Panda Obverse

GOLD

1 kilo: 300 (200)

5oz: 2,000 (1,000)

1oz: 300,000 (300,000)

1/2oz: 200,000 (120,000)

1/4oz: 200,000 (120,000)

1/10oz: 200,000 (120,000)

1/20oz: 200,000 (120,000)

2011 1 oz Silver Panda Reverse

2011 1 oz Silver Panda Obverse

SILVER

1 kilo: 8,000 (4,000)

5oz: 20,000 (10,000)

1oz: 3,000,00 (800,000)

The Panda coins will be produced by Shen Zhen Guo Bao, Shen Yang and Shanghai Mint. It would be interesting to see how many varieties are there for this issue.

In addition, from internet pictures, it seems that the stone sculpture on the centre stair way has become plain like the temple design used before 2002. Let's get the real thing to see for ourselves.

Total NGC graded: 13,455 (as of 18 Dec 2011)

MS70 (6,805); MS69 (6,650)