THE 2ND BATCH - CHINA NOTES

The next two Chinese notes from the new batch are above and are both 10 Yuan Notes.

The first one was issued by The Bank of Communications in 1935. The bank still operates to this day. It has electricity pylons on the front and what looks like a fortress temple on the reverse.

The second one above is from 1940 and was issued by the Bank of China . It has  Sun Yat-sen on the front and the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on the reverse.

This one stumped me for a while but it just took a bit of reading up to get the details. This note was issued by the Central bank of China in 1945. It has Sun Yat-sen on the front - apart from the photo and the numerals 500 it is in chinese script which made it more difficult to research.

The notes above are the 1 and 2 Jiao note from the 1980 issue described here

CHINA

The People's Republic of China, in terms of banknote history, is a subject in itself and could fill this blog and more but I will concentration on the notes I have. china's capital is Beijing (formerly Peking)

The monetary currency is:
1 chiao = 10 fen ( cents)
1 Yuan (dollar ) = 10 Chiao

The two notes above are  are the one fen (brown with a lorry pictured) and the 2 Fen ( green with an airplane ) the third in the series, which I don't have is the 5 Fen ( dark green with a ship)

This rather colourful note is the 1 Jiao (chiao ??) from 1962 depicting happy workers going to work. notice the serial number is in western script .

 these notes are from the 1980 issue and all depict the ethnic costumes from across the country  they are as follows

5 Jiao, purple with Miao and zhuang children
2 Jiao, green with Buyi and Korean youths
1 Jiao, brown with a gaoshan and another ethnic man

Here is the reverse of the 5 Jiao above, the reverse sides are similar for all the above but with different colours. Notice also the different languges written along the bottom of the note.

These above are not technically banknotes as they are foreign exchange certificates which some countries used to regulate where foreign nationals spent their money or where the national currency is not convertible outside the country.