Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Jiao / 10 Cents
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
|---|---|
| Year | 1949 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Jiao = 10 Cents (0.1) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Portrait of Sun Yat-sen in uniform at right, rendered in intaglio style against a fine guilloche underprint in blue. Large Chinese characters for the denomination 壹角 appear at centre-left within an ornate rosette vignette. Serial number and prefix letter are printed in red at upper centre, with Chinese and English issuing authority inscriptions framing the design. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Oval vignette at left portrays the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, rendered in fine line engraving. The large numeral '10' appears at centre within an elaborate guilloche medallion, flanked by decorative scrollwork. The issuing bank name and denomination are inscribed in English across the top and bottom registers respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Central Bank of China was printing notes like this one even as the Nationalist government was collapsing around it. By 1949, hyperinflation had so thoroughly destroyed public confidence in paper currency that denominations this small were effectively irrelevant to daily commerce — the gold yuan, introduced in 1948 as a stabilization measure, had already failed catastrophically within months. This 1 Jiao piece was issued into an economy where denominations in the millions were commonplace.
Chung Hwa Book Co. was one of several Shanghai-based printers the Nationalist government relied on heavily in its final years, as foreign printing arrangements became logistically and politically untenable. The firm had deep roots in commercial publishing before its involvement in security printing.