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| Emittent | Da-Qing Baochao (Board of Revenue, Qing Dynasty) |
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| Jahr | 1853-1864 |
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| Währung | Cash (621-1912) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Vertically oriented note printed in blue and red on buff paper, with the title inscription 大清寶鈔 (Da-Qing Baochao) arranged across the top within a decorative border of interlocking cloud and dragon motifs. The central field carries the denomination 壹千文 (1000 cash) in large brushwork characters, flanked by vertical columns of text detailing the issuing authority and legal tender proclamation. A large square red official seal impression dominates the lower central area, with additional smaller red seals and handwritten serial notations in the upper right margin indicating issue series and number. |
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| Rückseitenlegende | 天綿統 |
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| Anmerkungen |
The Da-Qing Baochao ("Great Qing Treasure Notes") were introduced in 1853 as the Qing government scrambled to finance suppression of the Taiping Rebellion — one of the deadliest civil wars in human history, ultimately killing an estimated 20 to 30 million people. Paper money had been abandoned in China for roughly four centuries before this emergency revival. Public trust was essentially nonexistent from the start.
The series collapsed within a decade. By the early 1860s the notes were trading at steep discounts against copper cash, and the Board of Revenue quietly discontinued them. The official seal impressed into each note was the primary — and largely inadequate — anti-counterfeiting measure for a currency that was already losing legitimacy through inflation rather than forgery.