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| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Weight | 8 g |
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| Reverse lettering | 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDUSTRIAL BANK 8g Au.999 100元 |
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| Mint | Shenzhen Guobao Mint |
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Industrial Bank (Xingye Bank) was founded in 1988 in Fujian Province as one of China's first joint-stock commercial banks — a structural experiment permitted under Deng Xiaoping's reform agenda that allowed non-state capital to participate in banking for the first time. The commemorative issue marks the bank's thirtieth year, a milestone the People's Bank of China has increasingly honored for major financial institutions through its gold bullion commemorative program.
The 8-gram, .999 fine format places this squarely within China's standard small-denomination gold commemorative series, where mintages are typically capped and distribution handled through the issuing institution itself — meaning a significant portion of surviving examples passed directly from bank branches to collectors without ever changing hands commercially.