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1 Jiao / 10 Cents Bank of China
| Issuer | Bank of China |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 1 Jiao (0.1) |
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| Obverse lettering | 上海 中國銀行 上海 壹角 憑票即付國金 壹角付常 (Governor signature) (Manager signature) 北京總行印務 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and dominated by large numeral 10 repeaters in each corner, surrounded by elaborate guilloche rosette work framing the central legend panel. The place names SHANGHAI and ХАРБИНЪ (Harbin) appear vertically at the outer margins, with HARBIN and ХАРБИНЪ in Cyrillic also present. At the foot, the imprint of the American Bank Note Company is printed in small letterpress text, and a serial number appears at centre bottom. |
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The Bank of China's 1918 fractional issues were a direct response to a chronic shortage of small coinage across Chinese treaty ports, where foreign concessions, merchant guilds, and provincial banks were each producing their own improvised substitutes. A nationally issued paper fractional note was the central bank's attempt to impose some order on that chaos — with limited success outside major urban centers.
The American Bank Note Company held the contract for much of the Bank of China's printed output during this period. ABNC's New York plant produced consistently high intaglio quality, and the security features on this series were considerably more sophisticated than anything being printed domestically at the time.
Pick lists multiple signature and overprint varieties for P#48, so authentication of the specific issuing branch overprint is worth attention before attribution.