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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Imperial Bank of China |
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| Year | 1898 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Two confronted dragons supporting a central roundel at upper centre, within a decorative guilloche border of interlocking geometric patterns. Chinese characters fill the field in vertical columns, with the denomination 拾圓 (Ten Dollars) at centre. Date inscription 大清光緒二十四年正月吉日 appears at upper right, with Shanghai branch notation. |
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| Variants | P#A53a - Issued note P#A53r - Remainder, perforated: CANCELLED |
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The Imperial Bank of China was the country's first government-authorized modern bank, established in 1897 under the supervision of Sheng Xuanhuai. This note predates the proliferation of provincial and foreign-concession bank issues that would fragment Chinese paper currency in the following decade. Broadbent, Fulton & Lawton — a London security printing firm — produced the plates, a common arrangement for Chinese institutions of the period that lacked domestic high-security printing capacity.
The bank collapsed into irrelevance after the 1911 revolution. Notes from this 1898 series are genuinely scarce in any condition.