Buy Silver China Panda Coins – Annual Design Since 1983, 999.9 Fine Silver
The Silver China Panda is the silver counterpart to the world's most collected gold coin programme – issued annually by the China Gold Coin Corporation (CGCC) since 1983, one year after the gold Panda launch. With 18 products at CelticGold spanning both the pre-2016 troy-ounce format and the post-2016 metric-weight standard, the Silver Panda offers one of the most visually distinctive annual coin programmes available, with a new Giant Panda design every single year.
Key Features
Annual new design – like its gold counterpart, every year's Silver Panda shows the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) in a different pose or setting. Only 2001 and 2002 shared the same design – a unique numismatic anomaly making those years especially collectible.
999.9/1,000 fineness – the Silver Panda achieves four-nines purity (the same as the finest gold coins), higher than most silver bullion coins which are 999/1,000.
2016 metric reform – all weights switched from troy ounces (1 oz = 31.1g) to metric grams (30g standard, 15g, 8g, 3g, 1g). Post-2016 30g coins contain slightly less silver than pre-2016 1oz coins.
Why 999.9/1,000 when most silver coins are 999/1,000? The CGCC has used four-nines silver since the Panda launch – a deliberate quality signal aligning the silver Panda with the highest achievable purity standard. Are 2001 and 2002 Pandas worth more? Yes – the only two years in 40+ years of annual design changes where the same motif was used. Within a series explicitly built on year-unique designs, a repeated year is a numismatic anomaly.
