2024 China Gold Pandas!

Only Here Can You Secure Mint-Identified 2024 China Gold Pandas! 

Perfect Gold Coins and Prestige Sets, First Day of Issue, with Signature Labels

Every year, collectors around the world anxiously await the release of China’s Gold Panda coins. They’re a big deal due to their stunning one-year-only designs and their limited authorized worldwide mintages. But—while these coins are renowned among collectors for their awe-inspiring designs, quality craftsmanship and 99.9% fineness—what you have here are Gold Pandas identified by mint, which is also a very big deal! Oh, and they’re also perfect, with FDI designations and hand-signed labels. Keep reading.

A Tale of Three Mints

When coins are struck at several mints, like these China Pandas struck at mints in Shenzhen (Guobao), Shanghai and Shenyang, knowing a coin’s mint of origin allows you to understand just how scarce the coin really is by pinpointing its exact mintage. Since the very first coins struck in the ancient world, minters have used special marks to identify where a coin was struck—which in turn often leads to an idea of the coin’s scarcity in relation to other, similar coins. 

But there are no mint marks in the world of China Pandas—with one exception, 1987. Both before and since that year, collectors purchasing China Pandas could only guess at where the coins were struck, something that led to “frustrated collectors”. While the mints in China are very secretive about mintage figures, our contacts in China reported that the production rates are about 60% Shenzhen, 25% Shenyang, and only 15% for Shanghai. And in 2019 our buyers worked closely with mint officials to ensure the coins could be correctly identified as to their mint of origin.  

A Particular Mint Mark Has Been Known to Hugely Impact a Coin’s Collectability

Here’s what legendary numismatist Jeff Garrett (former president of the American Numismatic Association and the expert the Smithsonian Institution® consults) said on the subject of mint marks that identify where a particular coin is minted: “Collectors highly covet coins with low mintage figures. The simple initials or ‘mint mark’ designating where a coin was struck can add in some cases millions of dollars in value. One example is the 1927-D Double Eagle. The tiny ‘D’ mint mark on the 1927 Double Eagle increases the coin’s value from $2,000 to $2,000,000, because only a handful of coins survived from the Denver mintage versus tens of thousands from the Philadelphia mintage.” 

China’s Best Kept Secret Revealed! 

We’ve been trying to solve this issue with regard to China Pandas for years. Though we made some headway in 2016, it wasn’t until 2019 that we were finally able to find a solution to the China Pandas mint dilemma. Ever since, we’ve been able to present our customers with coins certified by Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC), one of the world’s leading third-party grading services, as coming from a particular mint.

Each of the 2024 China Gold Pandas here is certified as being struck at the Shenzhen-Guobao Mint (G), the Shanghai Mint (S) or the Shenyang Mint (Y). As of 12/31/23, the Shenzhen-Guobao Mint had struck 62.16% of the China Pandas, and the Shanghai Mint and the Shenyang Mint had each struck 18.92% of the China Pandas. 

New One-Year-Only Design—The “Series within a Series”

Each new year brings a new one-year-only reverse design to the Gold Panda series. But starting in 2019, those designs became a “series within a series,” allowing collectors to view a panda cub growing into maturity. This year marks the sixth year of the China Mint’s new “cycle” of Panda designs. 

This 2024 one-year-only reverse depicts a delightful, heart-warming design of a Mother Panda Bear playing with her young cub. As always, the China Panda obverse depicts the Hall of Prayer for Abundant Harvests in the Temple of Heaven (in Beijing) encircled by the phrase “People’s Republic of China” in Mandarin Chinese completed with the year of issue, 2024.

Struck in 99.9% Gold…

2024 Gold Panda Prestige Sets consist of five coins struck in 99.9% gold—30-gram, 15-gram, 8-gram, 3-gram, 1-gram, with China legal-tender values of 500 Yuan, 200 Yuan, 100 Yuan, 50 Yuan and 10 Yuan, respectively—at one of the three mints. Each 5-coin Prestige Set also includes a BONUS limited edition, Year of the Dragon Medal struck in Shanghai, China, in one ounce of 99.9% fine silver. Or, you can secure a massive 15-Pc. Prestige Set of Gold Pandas that brings together all five coins, from all three mints, each with the BONUS 30-gram silver Dragon coin. Individual 30-gram gold and 15-gram gold China Pandas from the Shanghai or Shenyang Mints are also struck in 99.9% gold. 

Perfect Pandas, with Sought-After Designations…

Collectors only want the best of the best for their collections and that’s what you have here—flawless coins certified by NGC in perfect Mint State-70 (MS70) condition. 

Additionally, each of these Gold Panda coins has been certified as First Day of Issue (FDI), which means the coins were among the earliest coins to be issued and were received by NGC within 24 hours of their mint release. The Gold Pandas from the Shenzhen Mint also carry a “One of the First 200 Struck” designation, which means these particular coins are also among the first 200 coins off the coin press at the Shenzhen Mint. Our Scarce & Unique Division has exclusivity on all FDI 2023 Gold Panda BU Coinage graded by NGC.

…and Hand-Signed Signature Labels

Further, every one of these flawless, designated coins will arrive encapsulated with a special Panda label that not only identifies each coin’s mint of origin, but also features the hand-signed signature of former Shanghai Mint and Shenyang Mint Director Peter Gu.* Mr. Gu is highly respected in China’s numismatic industry and was responsible for many of the innovations and production processes used by China’s national mints today. This is the first program featuring a Mint Director from any of China’s national mints signing an NGC label intended for the North American market. 

Don’t Forget the Extras!

In addition…all Gold Panda Sets will arrive in a colorful, red, deluxe China Mint presentation box featuring an image of a panda eating a bamboo sprig on the cover, and sets and individual coins are accompanied by a colorful information booklet on the China Panda series and the three mints that strike these coins.

Exclusive – Limited Availability

For the sixth year in a row, we’ve been able to bring you China Gold Panda coins with flawless grades, special designations, and labels identifying their mints of origin. Now you can secure Gold Pandas from any or all three mints—if you act fast.

2024 China Gold Panda 15-Pc. Prestige Signature Set MS70 FDI Gu

• One 5-Pc. Set from All Three Mint Facilities: Shenzhen-Guobao, Shanghai & Shenyang
  • 30-Gram Gold 
  • 15-Gram Gold
  • 8-Gram Gold
  • 3-Gram Gold
  • 1-Gram Gold
• Struck in 99.9% Fineness
• Official China Legal Tender
• One-Year-Only Design
• Flawless MS70 Grade by NGC
• NGC-Certified FDI
• Mint Identification Labels
• Panda Labels Hand-Signed by Peter Gu
• Includes a 2024 Lunar Year of the Dragon 99.9% Silver Medallion
• Limited Availability

2024 China Gold Panda 5-Pc. Prestige Signature Set Mint-Identified Shenyang, Shanghai or Shenzhen-Guobao Mint MS70 FDI Gu

• 5-Piece Set from Your Choice of Mint: Shenzhen-Guobao, Shanghai or Shenyang
  • 30-Gram Gold 
  • 5-Gram Gold
  • 8-Gram Gold
  • 3-Gram Gold
  • 1-Gram Gold
• Struck in 99.9% Fineness
• Official China Legal Tender
• One-Year-Only Design
• Flawless MS70 Grade by NGC
• NGC-Certified FDI (Shenzhen Coins Also Designated “One of the First 200 Struck”)
• Mint Identification Labels
• Panda Labels Hand-Signed by Peter Gu
• Includes a 2024 Lunar Year of the Dragon 99.9% Silver Medallion
• Limited Availability

2024 China 30-Gram Gold Panda Mint-Identified Shenyang or Shanghai Mint MS70 FDI Gu

• 30 Grams of 99.9% Gold from Shenyang or Shanghai Mint
• 500 Yuan Official China Legal Tender
• One-Year-Only Design
• Flawless MS70 Grade by NGC
• NGC-Certified FDI 
• Mint Identification Labels
• Panda Labels Hand-Signed by Peter Gu
• Limited Availability

2024 China 15-Gram Gold Panda Mint-Identified Shenyang or Shanghai Mint MS70 FDI Gu

• 15 Grams of 99.9% Gold from Shenyang or Shanghai Mint
• 200 Yuan Official China Legal Tender
• One-Year-Only Design
• Flawless MS70 Grade by NGC
• NGC-Certified FDI 
• Mint Identification Labels
• Panda Labels Hand-Signed by Peter Gu
• Limited Availability