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10 Dollars Tsingtao Beer Culture
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | SAMOA 2015 FA`AVAE I LE ATUA SAMOA TSINGTAO SINCE 1903 $10 |
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| Reverse lettering | TSINGTAO 青岛啤酒博物馆 THE WORLD OF TSINGTAO TSINGTAO BREWERY |
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Tsingtao Brewery was founded in 1903 by German colonists in Qingdao — then the administrative center of the German leasehold of Kiautschou Bay — making it one of China's oldest surviving industrial enterprises. When Japan seized the territory in 1914, the brewery changed hands; it wouldn't return to Chinese ownership until 1949. The amber resin inlay on this coin directly references the beer's color, a format that Pacific island mints began exploiting aggressively in the 2010s as a way to generate numismatic revenue from foreign cultural subjects.