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1 Dollar Ta-Ching Government Bank, unissued
| Issuer | Ta-Ching Government Bank |
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| Year | 1910 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with an oval portrait vignette at left centre showing a young Chinese nobleman in traditional Qing court attire. The right half of the note is occupied by a large scenic vignette of junks under sail on open water, with a dragon emerging from storm clouds above. Corner cartouches bear the denomination numeral '1', and Chinese inscriptions run along the top and bottom margins. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in deep green, the reverse is centred on a dense guilloche panel flanked by two confronting dragons in elaborate intaglio work, with two blank unissued serial number ovals left unfilled. The top panel carries the bank title 'TA CHING GOVERNMENT BANK' in English above a promise-to-pay legend, while the bottom panel reads '$1 — ONE DOLLAR — $1'. Ornate Chinese character cartouches occupy all four corners, and a printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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The Ta-Ching Government Bank was established in 1905 as the Qing dynasty's first genuine central bank, with authority to issue national currency — a direct response to the chaotic proliferation of provincial and foreign bank notes circulating across China at the time. By 1910, the dynasty had less than two years left. Notes printed that year never entered circulation for straightforward political reasons: the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 ended Qing rule and rendered the issuing institution obsolete before most of the stock could be released.
Unissued remainders from this series survive without serial numbers or signatures, which is how they left the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Peking — the same facility that printed official government documents and seals.