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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Deutsch-Asiatische Bank |
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| Year | 1909-1914 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by two large circular vignettes set side by side against a pale blue guilloche ground, each enclosing an allegorical female portrait in profile executed in fine intaglio engraving and surrounded by elaborate rosette and lace-pattern underprint work. The denomination TEN DOLLARS is printed in bold letterpress at the centre between the vignettes, with Chinese characters 拾圓 appearing vertically at the left and right margins, and the bank title THE DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK together with the promise-to-pay legend in letterpress across the upper portion. Two subsidiary denomination cartouches reading TEN 10 DOLLARS appear in the lower left and lower right corners, with serial numbers printed in red at the left and right edges. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER TEN DOLLARS LOCAL CURRENCY AT ITS OFFICES IN THE GERMAN COLONY KIAUTSCHOU AND IN THE CHINESE PROVINCE SHANTUNG. 拾圓 |
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The Deutsch-Asiatische Bank was founded in 1889 by a consortium of German banks to facilitate trade finance across East Asia, with branches in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Yokohama, and Tsingtau among others. These dollar-denominated notes were issued for circulation in the treaty port economy, where the Mexican silver dollar and its successors set the unit of account — hence the dollar denomination rather than anything tied to the Mark.
The Tsingtau branch became the de facto issuing center after Germany's seizure of Jiaozhou Bay in 1898. When Japanese forces took Tsingtau in November 1914, the bank's local operations collapsed. Notes from this series found still circulating after that date were effectively stranded obligations.