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100 Yuan 25th Anniversary of Founding Merchants Bank
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2012 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 招商银行成立25周年暨上市10周年纪念 2012 |
| Reverse description | Two giant pandas are depicted in a naturalistic bamboo grove setting, with an adult panda and a cub interacting in the central field, rendered in high relief with fine frosted detail against a mirror-like background. The denomination 100 appears in the upper right field. The weight and fineness designation 1/4oz Au.999 is inscribed in the lower field. The circular legend reads 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING & 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF LISTING OF CHINA MERCHANTS BANK along the periphery in Latin script. |
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China Merchants Bank was founded in Shekou, Shenzhen in 1987 — the first share-holding commercial bank in the People's Republic wholly owned by enterprises rather than the state, a structural novelty at the time. This commemorative marks its 25th anniversary and belongs to China's substantial output of institutional anniversary gold issues that expanded sharply after 2000 as domestic demand for investment-grade commemoratives outpaced traditional collector channels.
The 7.775g specification corresponds precisely to one quarter troy ounce — a deliberate sizing choice the Chinese mint used repeatedly to keep face-value gold issues accessible to retail buyers.