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2 Dollars
| Issuer | Ningpo Commercial Bank, Limited |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | Gray underprint with a central dragon vignette at upper centre, mirroring the obverse design. Guilloche borders frame the composition, with the denomination rendered in both English and Chinese script. |
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| Variants | P#A61Aa - Issued note P#A61Ab - HK monogram (Hankow)/SHANGHAI P#A61Ac - NP (Ningpo)/SHANGHAI P#A61Ad - SH monogram SHANGHAI |
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The Ningpo Commercial Bank (寧波商業銀行) was one of the early Chinese-owned commercial banks, founded in Shanghai in 1908 — this note comes from its first full year of operation. The bank drew its founding capital and much of its initial clientele from the Ningbo merchant diaspora in Shanghai, a community with an outsized role in Chinese finance well before formal banking institutions existed.
The Trade & Statistical Printing Company was a Shanghai-based printer operating in the shadow of the more prominent security printers; its output is less documented than contemporaries like the American Bank Note Company or Waterlow, which makes precise attribution of printing variants within this series genuinely difficult.
P#A61A status suggests a provisional or tentative catalog placement — the series is sparsely represented in major collections.