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10 Copper Coins Tsihar Hsing Yeh Bank
| Issuer | Tsihar Hsing Yeh Bank |
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| Year | 15 (1926) |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange and dark blue note with an overall guilloche underprint. A central circular vignette presents a mountain village scene with buildings, bare trees, and a waterway in the foreground, framed by ornate scrollwork. Large Chinese denomination characters 拾枚 appear in lobed cartouches to the left and right, with the bank title 察哈爾興業銀行 and serial number printed in red across the upper portion; branch designations 北京 and 張家口 appear in red at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue note printed on buff paper with an elaborate guilloche background covering the entire field. The bank name TSIHAR HSING YEH BANK appears in a curved banner at the top, while large numeral 10 denominators occupy lobed cartouches at each corner and flanking the centre. A central ornamental rosette in guilloche work is flanked by two large 10 numerals; the denomination panel at the bottom reads COPPER COINS with KALGAN below, and the imprint BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING, PEKING, CHINA runs along the lower margin. |
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The Tsihar Hsing Yeh Bank was a regional institution operating out of Qiqihar, then the capital of Heilongjiang province, during the warlord period — a time when dozens of provincial and municipal banks issued their own paper currency with little coordination and even less redemption reliability. Notes denominated in copper coins rather than yuan or silver were a deliberate concession to local commerce, where small copper cash remained the practical medium for daily transactions.
Printing at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Peking gives this note better technical pedigree than many contemporaries from the same region, which were often produced by local lithographers with inconsistent results.