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10 Cents
| Issuer | Frontier Bank (邊業銀行) |
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| Year | 1925 |
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| Value | 10 Cents (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in reddish-brown on off-white paper, the obverse centres on an oval vignette of farmers working in a field, with a pagoda visible in the background. The denomination 壹角 (one jiao) appears in large Chinese characters flanking the central vignette, with the bank name 邊業銀行 and the place name 天奉 (Fengtien) inscribed above and below respectively. Serial numbers are printed in the upper left and upper right corners, with additional Chinese character legends arranged vertically along the side margins. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in reddish-brown and carries Chinese character inscriptions with a decorative border design. Signature blocks appear to the left and right in black ink, with further Chinese text arranged within the overall guilloche-style framework. |
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Frontier Bank — Bianye Yinhang in Mandarin — was established in 1915 with backing from Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission funds, essentially a Beijing government instrument for managing currency in the northern border regions. By 1925 the political situation was deteriorating badly: the warlord-dominated Beiyang government was fragmenting, and Frontier Bank's notes were losing credibility in precisely the territories they were designed to stabilize.
Small-denomination fractional notes from this bank are considerably scarcer than the higher values — low-denomination paper in border regions circulated hard and was rarely preserved.