Changsha Evening News Changsha, January 3rd (all media reporter Fan Honghuan) The new year’s Lunar New Year coins and banknotes are here! The reporter learned from the Hunan Provincial Branch of the People's Bank of China that reservations for the 2024 Lunar New Year ordinary commemorative coins and the 2024 Lunar New Year commemorative banknotes will officially open at 22:00 today. The number of Lunar New Year coins and Lunar New Year banknotes allocated to Changsha this time are 680,000 and 640,000, respectively, both of which are legal tender of the People's Republic of China. The reservation and exchange limit for each person is 20 pieces (pieces).
The 2024 New Year ordinary commemorative coins issued this time have a face value of 10 yuan, a diameter of 27 mm, and are made of two-color copper alloy. The number of issued is 120 million. The 2024 Lunar New Year commemorative banknote has a face value of 20 yuan, a face length of 145 mm and a width of 70 mm. It is made of plastic material and has a circulation quantity of 100 million. The same reservation method for ordinary commemorative coins in the past, the 2024 Lunar New Year coins and 2024 Lunar New Year banknotes adopt an online reservation method. The appointment exchange work in Changsha is jointly undertaken by six banks: Agricultural Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Postal Savings Bank of China, Hua Xia Bank, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, and Changsha Bank.
Specifically, the reservation period for the 2024 Lunar New Year coins is from 22:00 on the 3rd to 24:00 on the 4th, and the reservation period for the 2024 Lunar New Year banknotes is from 22:30 on the 3rd to 24:00 on the 4th. The centralized exchange period for both is from the 9th to the 15th of this month. The public can go to the agreed appointment-organizing bank branch to handle the appointment exchange business according to the agreed time and with the valid ID registered in the appointment system. It should be noted that citizens who use the same second-generation resident ID card to make appointments at two or more banking financial institutions will not be able to pass the verification and cannot be exchanged.
Reporters learned that this commemorative banknote for the Year of the Dragon is the seventh commemorative banknote issued by the central bank. The central bank has previously issued commemorative banknotes "Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" (1999, face value 50 yuan), Dragon banknotes (2000, face value 100 yuan), Olympic banknotes (2008, face value 10 yuan), and space banknotes (2008, face value 10 yuan). 2015, face value 100 yuan), the 70th anniversary commemorative banknote of the RMB issuance (2018, face value 50 yuan), and the Winter Olympics commemorative banknote (2021, face value 20 yuan), are all legal tender in my country and can be circulated and used. Due to the good public base for the zodiac theme, industry insiders believe that this time the reservation market may be booming.
"The market for Dragon Coins and Dragon Banknotes is very popular. In addition, the Dragon Banknotes are the first Lunar New Year banknotes with Chinese zodiac signs. It is expected to be difficult to grab. I plan to enter the reservation entrance a few minutes in advance and enter the relevant information." A commemorative coin collector is interested in Ms. Li, the reporter, told reporters that according to previous years’ experience, reservations for commemorative coins and banknotes take almost “seconds”. Citizens who plan to make reservations must remember to set their alarm clocks.
