People's Daily Beijing, January 7 (Reporter Luo Zhizhi) According to the official public account of the People's Bank of China, the reservation business of the 2022 Lunar New Year two-color copper alloy commemorative coin will be handled from 22:30 on January 7, 2022 (Friday) to 24:00 on January 9, 2022, with a reservation and exchange limit of 20 pieces per person.
According to reports, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the Agricultural Bank of China, the Bank of China, the China Construction Bank, the Bank of Communications, the Postal Savings Bank of China, the Huaxia Bank, and the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (hereinafter collectively referred to as the undertaking bank) jointly undertake the appointment exchange of the 2022 Lunar New Year two-color copper alloy commemorative coin. The public can make an appointment registration through online channels such as the official website of the host bank or go to the reservation exchange outlet announced by the host bank during business hours.
It is worth noting that January 12, 2022 (Wednesday) to January 13, 2022 (Thursday) is the appointment verification period. During the reservation verification period, the public who have not passed the verification can go to the branch of the bank undertaking the appointment registration with the original second-generation resident identity card used for the appointment registration to handle the business of revoking the duplicate reservation record and retaining the exchange qualification. The undertaking bank will handle the exchange of two-color copper alloy commemorative coins for the Chinese New Year in 2022 from 14 January 2022 (Friday) to 20 January 2022 (Thursday). The public may, in accordance with the agreed time, hold the original valid second-generation resident identity card registered in the reservation system and go to the agreed branch of the undertaking bank to handle the appointment exchange business.
The People's Bank of China previously issued an announcement that from December 21, 2021, a set of 2022 Lunar New Year commemorative coins will be issued successively, and the set of commemorative coins will be a total of 3 coins, including 1 gold commemorative coin, 1 silver commemorative coin, and 1 two-color copper alloy commemorative coin, all of which are legal tender of the People's Republic of China. The obverse of the two-color copper alloy commemorative coin is "Chinese Bank" and "10 Yuan", the Hanyu Pinyin letters "SHIYUAN" and the year number "2022", and the shading is lined with tuanhua pattern. The main scene pattern on the back of the two-color copper alloy commemorative coin is a tiger image that combines traditional Chinese paper-cutting art with decorative New Year painting elements, and the lining pattern is flower lanterns and pine branches and pine cones, and the word "壬寅" is published on the left side of the coin. The two-color copper alloy commemorative coin has a denomination of 10 yuan, a diameter of 27 mm, a material of two-color copper alloy, and a circulation of 120 million pieces (including 10,000 historical currency archives).