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100 Coppers

Issuer Hunan Provincial Bank (湖南銀行)
Year 1913
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Size 135 × 80 mm
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Reverse lettering 中華民國二年正月吉日
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Protection type Official seal
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The Hunan Provincial Bank was established in 1912, shortly after the fall of the Qing dynasty, as part of a broader Republican-era push by provincial governments to assert financial control before a stable central banking framework existed. Copper-unit denominations like this one were specifically designed to displace the chaotic mix of copper cash coins still circulating in interior Hunan, where small transactions remained almost entirely coin-dependent.

Provincial issues from this period are frequently found with heavy fold wear — they circulated hard in market towns where banking infrastructure was thin and replacement stock irregular.

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