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| Emittent | Li Yuanheng Private Bank (利元亨錢莊) |
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| Jahr | 1913 |
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| Material | Paper |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Printed in green on buff paper with a decorative floral guilloche border running the full perimeter. The bank name 利元亨 (Li Yuanheng) appears in large Chinese characters within a cartouche at the upper centre. A circular central vignette carries the denomination numeral 參 (three) rendered in an ornamental stacked script. Flanking text panels bear the customary Chinese private bank disclaimers, and a rectangular architectural vignette in the lower half shows a traditional courtyard building in fine line engraving. The numeral 3 appears in the lower corners. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse carries traditional Chinese decorative motifs and text panels consistent with private qianzhuang (錢莊) issues of the late Qing to early Republican period, with the denomination stated in both Chinese characters and Western Arabic numerals. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Li Yuanheng was one of the thousands of private money shops — qianzhuang — that operated across Republican China in the years immediately following the 1911 revolution, issuing their own notes against deposits of silver or copper cash. The 1913 date places this at a particularly chaotic moment: the new Republic had no functioning central bank capable of asserting monetary authority over private issuers, and regional qianzhuang notes circulated alongside official issues with wildly varying degrees of local trust.
Notes from smaller provincial qianzhuang of this period suffered high attrition — they were redeemed, rejected, or simply lost faith during successive warlord-era disruptions, and few survived outside China. This one is worth documenting on that basis alone.