Protest Coin

The country is on a mild state of lockdown. A few hours before the planned nationwide strike and I'm just feeling the seriousness of the movement.
For once in my life, I'm feeling a wee bit patriotic, and it can be felt in my coin choice today.

1989 Tiananmen Square Protest Silver Coin 🇨🇳

This has to be one of the rarest coins I've searched of, so rare infact that it took a long while to find it's original name.
The story behind this coin is one which isn't rare though..

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, also known as the June Fourth Incident, were a series of pro-democracy demonstrations that took place in Beijing's Tiananmen Square from April 15 to June 4, 1989. The protests were sparked by a combination of factors, including:

1. Death of Hu Yaobang: The death of Hu Yaobang, a former Communist Party leader who sympathized with democratic reforms, triggered the protests.
2. Economic reforms: China's economic reforms had created widespread corruption, inflation, and inequality, leading to growing discontent.
3. Democracy and freedom: Protesters demanded greater political freedoms, including free speech, assembly, and the press.
4. Government accountability: Demonstrators called for government accountability, transparency, and an end to corruption.
   The protests began as a peaceful gathering of students, intellectuals, and workers, but grew to include hundreds of thousands of people from various backgrounds. The protesters' demands included:
5. Democratic reforms
6. Freedom of speech and assembly
7. An end to corruption
8. Improved living standards
   The Chinese government initially tolerated the protests but eventually declared martial law and sent troops to Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989. The resulting crackdown killed hundreds, possibly thousands, of protesters and bystanders.
   The Tiananmen Square protests were a pivotal moment in modern Chinese history, marking a turning point in the country's transition from socialism to capitalism and highlighting the ongoing struggle for democratic reforms and human rights in China. - Meta AI

I guess with my country about to go on a protest, this isn't the best history story to go dig up, regardless it's all scholarship.
I'm not going protesting, although I really don't want to stay at home.
I wonder what I'll do then...

Specifications

As I mentioned before, this coin is very rare, I didn't see anything for specifications online, at such I'd leave this bit blank, maybe someone far more versed in Chinese coins would know or know where to get the specifications.

I do know that it's a very rare coin. The coin itself wasn't planned to be released during the protest, but as it was, the coin had to be withdrawn and remelted. The original coins first sent out in 1989 are extremely rare. Those coins were initially with a 200 yen denomination but now new coins are coming out with different denominations..

Regardless that's all from me today, off to hunker down and watch how tomorrow and the follow weeks would play out...

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