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1 Dollar
| Issuer | Ta Ch'ing Government Bank |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green and lilac intaglio print. Bank title 'THE TA-CHING GOVERNMENT BANK' across top, with supported arms vignette at upper centre flanked by two lions. Denomination 'ONE DOLLAR' in bold letterpress, with branch name 'URGA' and date '1st March 1908' below. Guilloche underprint with numeral '1' at lower corners and two manuscript signatures at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE TA-CHING GOVERNMENT BANK Promises to pay the Bearer on Demand at its Office here One Dollar Local Currency ONE DOLLAR URGA 1st March 1908 |
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The Ta Ch'ing Government Bank was established by imperial edict in 1905 as the Qing dynasty's first modern central bank, replacing the earlier Hu Pu Bank. This 1908 dollar note was issued just three years before the Xinhai Revolution ended imperial rule entirely — making the entire series historically short-lived by design, not circumstance.
The Chung Ming Printing Agency was one of the few domestic Chinese printing houses producing banknotes at this period, at a time when most Qing-era paper currency was contracted abroad to firms like Waterlow or American Bank Note Company. Locally printed Qing issues are consequently less uniform in execution than their foreign-printed contemporaries.