10 Yuan 20th Anniversary of Bank of Beijing

The Bank of Beijing was established in 1996 through the merger of 90 urban credit cooperatives operating across the city — a consolidation pushed by the People's Bank of China to rationalize a fragmented and poorly supervised local lending sector. By 2016 it had grown into one of China's largest city commercial banks by assets, a trajectory few of those original cooperative members could have anticipated. This commemorative was issued as part of China's well-established practice of marking institutional anniversaries with legal-tender silver rounds, a series that generates as much collector interest as institutional pride.