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30 Coppers
| Issuer | Jing Yuan City Official Money Bureau (经远市官钱局) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S2775 |
| Obverse description | Red-toned note with an oval central vignette showing a lakeside pagoda and landscape scene set against a guilloche underprint. To the right of the vignette, large Chinese characters denote the denomination of 30 copper coins, with vertical columns of smaller inscription text flanking the design. The serial number appears twice — above and below the central vignette — and the date inscription 中華民國十二年印 (printed in the 12th year of the Republic of China) runs along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 經遠市官錢局 憑票兌銅元 叁拾枚 中華民國十二年印 |
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The Jing Yuan City Official Money Bureau was one of dozens of locally administered currency offices operating in Republican-era China, issuing copper-unit notes to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage in provincial markets. By 1923, the national banking system was fragmented enough that municipal and prefectural bureaus routinely printed their own fractional notes with no coordination from Peking — and frequently no meaningful redemption backing either.
The "city official money bureau" designation placed this issuer below the provincial level, meaning its notes circulated within a narrow geographic radius and enjoyed trust only insofar as local commerce enforced it. Many such issues collapsed within a few years of printing.