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 Yuan
| Issuer | The Shanse Provincial Bank |
|---|---|
| Year | 1930 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 山西省銀行 壹圓 太原 通用銀行圓 中華民國十九年 |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | THE SHANSE PROVINCIAL BANK 1 YUAN ONE YUAN PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER AT ITS OFFICE HERE ONE YUAN LOCAL CURRENCY TAIYUAN AUG 1ST 1930 BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING PEIPING CHINA |
| 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 Shanse Provincial Bank — more commonly romanized as the Shanxi Provincial Bank — operated under the financial umbrella of Yan Xishan, the warlord-governor who controlled Shanxi province for nearly three decades. This note dates from a period when Yan was consolidating economic control over the region, issuing provincial currency partly to reduce dependence on central government finance and to fund his own military apparatus.
Printing by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Peiping gives this note a quality well above most provincial issues of the period. The suffix "M" in the Pick reference denotes a specimen.