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| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Weight | 30 g |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 2016 |
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| Reverse lettering | 10元 宁波钱业会馆成立九十周年 |
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The Ningbo Money Industry Assembly Hall, founded in 1911, was one of the earliest formal financial guild organizations in China, emerging from Ningbo's centuries-old dominance in Chinese private banking. The Qianzhuang bankers of Ningbo — a tight regional network that financed much of the Yangtze Delta trade economy — operated through exactly these kinds of guild structures long before Western-style banking reached the mainland. By 2016, the hall had survived warlord-era instability, Japanese occupation, and nationalization, making it a genuinely unusual institutional survivor.