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1 Tael Ta-Ching Government Bank, Shansi branch
| Issuer | Ta-Ching Government Bank (Shansi Branch) |
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| Year | 1911 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Vertically oriented note with a central panel enclosed by an intricate guilloche border with flanking dragon vignettes in red-brown on a green underprint. The upper portion bears a pair of confronted dragons above a central roundel, with the bank title in Chinese characters across the upper register. The lower central field carries handwritten and printed Chinese text stating the denomination of one tael of standard silver, with additional manuscript entries for date, serial number, and the signatures of bank officials. |
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| Obverse lettering | 陝西大清銀行 兌換銀票 憑票取陝議平足紋銀壹兩正 宣統 年 月 日 |
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The Ta-Ching Government Bank was established by imperial decree in 1905 as the Qing dynasty's first attempt at a centrally controlled state bank, replacing the earlier Hu Pu Bank. The Shansi branch issue is particularly pointed in its timing: notes dated 1911 were circulating — or being printed — in the same year the Wuchang Uprising ended the dynasty entirely. The bank collapsed with the empire, and branch issues from provincial offices like Shansi were among the last paper authorized under the Qing financial system.
The tael denomination rather than yuan marks this as pre-Republican monetary thinking. The tael was a weight-based silver unit, never fully standardized across provinces, which complicated redemption even before the political crisis made it moot.