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10 Dollars Tsingtao Beer Culture
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Tala (1967-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | SAMOA 2015 FA`AVAE I LE ATUA SAMOA TSINGTAO SINCE 1903 $10 |
| Reverse description | A detailed high-relief depiction of the historic Tsingtao Brewery building occupies the central field, rendered in antiqued finish with fine architectural detail including arched windows, balconies, and entry steps characteristic of the early twentieth-century German colonial structure. To the right, a stylized Tsingtao beer bottle outline incorporates an oval amber inlay at its center. The Chinese legend '青岛啤酒博物馆' and the English legend 'THE WORLD OF TSINGTAO' are inscribed across the facade of the building. The legend 'TSINGTAO' arcs along the upper rim, and 'TSINGTAO BREWERY' appears along the lower rim. |
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Tsingtao Brewery was founded in 1903 by German colonists in Qingdao — then the administrative center of the German leasehold of Kiautschou Bay — making it one of China's oldest surviving industrial enterprises. When Japan seized the territory in 1914, the brewery changed hands; it wouldn't return to Chinese ownership until 1949. The amber resin inlay on this coin directly references the beer's color, a format that Pacific island mints began exploiting aggressively in the 2010s as a way to generate numismatic revenue from foreign cultural subjects.