10 Dollars Tsingtao Beer Culture

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.