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2 Taels Ta-Ching Government Bank, Shansi branch
| Issuer | Ta-Ching Government Bank |
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| Year | 1911 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in green and red-brown tones on cream paper. At the top, two confronting dragons flank a central roundel above the horizontal inscription panel reading 兌換票 (Exchange Note) and the branch name 陝西大清銀行 (Shansi Ta-Ching Government Bank). The central text panel, framed by an elaborate guilloche border with dragon and wave motifs, carries the denomination in large Chinese characters 憑票取陝議平足紋銀貳兩正, with a red serial number inscription and spaces for the Xuantong reign year date; manuscript signatures and a red official seal appear at lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | 兌換票 陝西大清銀行 憑票取陝議平足紋銀貳兩正 洪字第貳百陸拾叁號 經理 宣統 年 月 日 |
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The Ta-Ching Government Bank was established by imperial edict in 1905 as the Qing dynasty's attempt to consolidate state banking functions and bring provincial note issue under central control. It largely failed at that second goal. Branch offices — including Shansi — continued issuing notes with significant local variation in typography, chop marks, and overprints, reflecting the reality that Beijing's authority over provincial financial practice was more nominal than actual by 1911.
That year is the crux of everything here. The Xinhai Revolution broke out in October 1911, the dynasty collapsed, and the Ta-Ching Government Bank ceased to exist as an imperial institution. Notes issued in the final months of 1911 were among the last the bank produced anywhere.