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| Emittent | Bank of China |
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| Jahr | 1913 |
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| Form | Rectangular |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | At centre, an oval vignette encloses a multi-storey traditional Chinese pavilion rendered in fine intaglio, flanked by large guilloche rosettes each bearing the numeral 5 and the Chinese denomination characters 伍圓. The upper field carries the overprint 廣東省兌換券 (Kwang Tung Province Exchange Note) together with a serial number, while two manuscript signatures occupy the lower margin above the American Bank Note Company imprint. |
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| Rückseitenlegende | BANK OF CHINA KWANG TUNG PROVINCE PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND FIVE DOLLARS 五圓 伍圓 CANTON, JAN. 1ST 1913 N.B. Payable in subsidiary (silver) coins at par i.e. ten 10-cent coins to the dollar AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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| Anmerkungen |
The Bank of China was itself barely a year old when this note was printed — it had been established by the new Republic on 7 February 1912, converting the old Qing dynasty's Ta-Ching Government Bank. The 1913 series was one of the first substantive emissions from the reorganized institution, designed to project fiscal credibility at a moment when the republic was chronically short of hard currency and struggling to establish public trust in paper.
American Bank Note Company secured a number of Chinese government printing contracts during this period, partly on reputation and partly because domestic printing infrastructure capable of producing secure intaglio work simply did not exist at the required scale. The P#29 is one of the cleaner survivors of a series that circulated hard in treaty port commerce.