CHINA 1932 Sun Yat Sen Dollar Silver Birds over Junk Rare Coin in Port Jervis, New York

CHINA 1932 Sun Yat Sen Dollar Silver (Birds over junk-rare). (China Republic AR Yuan Year 21 1932 Junk birds) No emails.
This first national silver dollar issued by the Shanghai mint has an
interesting story to tell. The proposed design of the new coin called for the head of
Sun-Yat-Sen, the founder of modern China, to be shown on the obverse and a
Chinese junk under sail to appear on the reverse. After reviewing different design
submissions, a winner was chosen and the work assigned the new mint at
Shanghai. The winning design showed Sun-Yat-Sen on the obverse together with
an artistic depiction of a junk sailing into a rayed sun with three geese flying
overhead. This coin, dated the 21st Year of the Republic (1932), was actually
struck between March and June 1933. Over fifty-one thousand of these pieces
entered circulation before they were withdrawn and the coin redesigned. The
reason was patriotic. By this time, the Chinese - Japanese troubles over
Manchukuo had broken out and mint officials feared the sun would be
misinterpreted as the "rising sun" of Japan, and the geese as enemy aircraft. The
redesigned coins continued to be minted in 1933 and 1934 sans the "rising sun"
and " aircraft"! The 1932 issue is rather scarce today with the other dates
decidedly more plentiful. By 1935 China was off the silver standard, with most of
these junk dollars finding their way into the melting pot and the silver sold abroad.
The Sun Yat Sen standard silver dollar. First introduced in 1932, its reverse design contained
three geese flying over a junk which was sailing into the rising sun. When the Japanese invaded
China shortly thereafter, mint officials had the offending symbolics removed fearing the general
public would construe the geese as raiding aircraft and the rising sun as Japan. Mintage of these
beautiful pieces ceased in 1935 when China abandoned the silver standard.