10 Yuan Foundation of Agricultural Bank of China

The Agricultural Bank of China, founded in 1951, has had a complicated institutional history — dissolved, re-established, and restructured multiple times before finally being reconstituted in its current form in 1979. The 2009 commemorative marks the bank's formal restructuring into a joint-stock commercial bank that year, directly preceding its 2010 IPO on the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges, which raised over $22 billion and briefly ranked as the largest IPO in history at the time.