5 Yuan Swallowtail Butterfly

5 Yuan (Swallowtail Butterfly) - obverse5 Yuan (Swallowtail Butterfly) - reverse

© Emiliano Micalizzi

Features

Issuer People's Republic of China
Period People's Republic (1949-date)
Type Circulating commemorative coin
Year 1999
Value 5 Yuan (5元, 伍圓)
5 CNY = USD 0.69
Currency Second Rénmínbì (1955-date)
Composition Copper
Weight 13.5 g
Diameter 32.0 mm
Thickness 2.2 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
13882
References KM# 1213,
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.
Y# 1053
Richard S. Yeoman, Arthur L. Friedberg; 2007. A Catalog of Modern World Coins : 1850-1964 (14th edition). Whitman Publishing Company, Atlanta, United States.
And 1 more volumes.

Commemorative issue

Red Book Animals Series - 6th edition - Swallowtail Butterfly

Obverse

National emblem, date below

Lettering:
ZHONGHUA RENMIN CONGHEGUO
中华人民共和国
1999

Reverse

Swallowtail Butterfly and denomination

Lettering:
中国珍稀野生动物 — 金斑喙凤蝶
5元

Edge

Alternating reeded and plain sections (nine sections each containing eight reeds)

Comments

Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterflies of the genus Ornithoptera. Swallowtails have a number of distinctive features; for example, the papilionid caterpillar bears a repugnatorial organ called the osmeterium on its prothorax. The osmeterium normally remains hidden, but when threatened, the larva turns it outward through a transverse dorsal groove by inflating it with fluid.

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