1 Dollar Ta-Ching Government Bank, unissued

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.