How popular are the Year of the Dragon banknotes?
On January 9, Chongqing's 2024 Chinese New Year ordinary commemorative coins (Year of the Dragon coins) and Chinese New Year commemorative banknotes (Year of the Dragon banknotes) were officially exchanged, and the relevant exchange outlets of Bank of China and Postal Savings Bank of China lined up.
In the collectibles market, the Year of the Dragon coin with a face value of 10 yuan rose to 15 yuan, and the Year of the Dragon banknote with a face value of 20 yuan rose to 40 yuan.
The Postal Savings Bank of China Chongqing Jiulongpo District Shixin Road Branch is also the exchange outlet for the Chinese New Year banknotes.
The upstream news reporter saw at the scene that the sub-branch has set up a special exchange window, which can reduce the waiting time of commemorative coin exchange customers while not affecting the normal handling of other business by customers, so that customers who go to the outlets can quickly exchange.
The Year of the Dragon coin has a denomination of 10 yuan, a diameter of 27 mm, and is made of two-color copper alloy, with a number of 1200,000,000 pieces (including 10,000 pieces of historical currency files). The Year of the Dragon banknote has a denomination of 20 yuan, a length of 145 mm, a width of 70 mm, and is made of plastic, with a circulation of 100 million pieces (including 20,000 historical currency files).
It is understood that in Chongqing, the number of two-color copper alloy commemorative coins is 1.27 million, and the number of commemorative banknotes is 1.06 million.
The commemorative coins issued this time are limited to 20 pieces per person, and the commemorative banknotes are limited to 20 pieces per person.
On the evening of January 3, the first day of online reservation was seconds, and many netizens exclaimed that the network was stuck and could not make an appointment.
The centralized exchange period for 2024 Lunar New Year ordinary commemorative coins and Chinese New Year commemorative banknotes is from January 9 to January 15, and customers who have made a successful reservation can go to the exchange outlets with the original second-generation resident ID card.
Bank outlets are very enthusiastic about exchanging money, and the collectibles market is particularly lively.
On the afternoon of January 9, Pan Jian, general manager of Dingfu Collection, told upstream news reporters that the highest transaction price of the Year of the Dragon banknote was 40 yuan, and the Year of the Dragon coin was about 15 yuan.
The Year of the Dragon banknote is the first Zodiac commemorative banknote of the central bank, and it is expected that other zodiac banknotes will be issued in the next 11 years, and the market has high expectations for the Chinese New Year dragon banknotes. However, since the 9th is the first day of exchange, the future trend of the Year of the Dragon zodiac banknotes still needs to be observed.
Upstream news reporter Liu Yong intern Lu Lei.