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(26 Feb 2018) July 2021
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The Bank of Communications Series of 1914 - 交通銀行 三年
Section 4: 50 and 100 yuan
For convenience, the chart of signatures is repeated here.
Signatures of bank officials on the 1914 series
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Zhao Qinghua 赵庆华, Hankow (Hankou) branch manager |
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Kiang ShihTeh (Jiang Shide) 江世德 Manager c1917 |
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Xie Linying 谢霖 (1885-1969) Manager c1917 |
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Coa Rulin 曹汝霖 (1877-1966) General Manager from January 1917, resigned in 1921? |
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Bao Peizhi 包培之 (Pao Kuang Yung) |
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Chang Chien (Zhang Jian) 张謇 (1853-1926) - Governor 1922 - 1925 |
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Chen Fuyi 陈福颐 (1881-?) |
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Zhang Ying? Yang Yinsun (杨荫荪)? |
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Sheng Zhushu 盛竹书 (1860-1927), Shanghai branch manager |
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Unidentified signature only observed on one 1914 circulated 1 Yuan, and a 5 Yuan specimen, of the Anhui branch
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Unidentified signature only observed on one 1914 1 Yuan of the Honan branch |
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Unidentified signature only observed on one 1914 1 Yuan of the Honan branch |
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Lei Chao 李钟楚 (Li Zhongchu) 鍣 Manager (Tsingtao, Tientsin) 1923 - 1933 |
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Lu Xuepu 卢学溥 (1877-1956) Chairman 1928-1933 |
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Hu Meng-chia, T.D Woo, 胡孟嘉 (1888-1936) Assistant Manager Shanghai Branch 1922 - 1927, General Manager 1928 - 1933 |
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Liang Shiyi/Shizhen 梁士诒 (1869-1933) General Manager 1918 - 1922 and 1925 - 1928 |
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Tang Shoumin 唐寿民 General Manager 1933 - c1940 |
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Wang Zisong 王子崧 Manager 1933 - 1942? |
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13b
As above |
14b
As above |
15b
As above |
16b
As above |
17b
As above |
18b
As above |
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Liang Rucheng 梁汝成, a signature found on a 5 Yuan of 1914 (branch unknown |
50 yuan - 伍拾圓
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Fifty yuan of the National Coinage of the Republic of China. October 1st 1914. The back vignette image, named "Just Arrived" (right) was selected from a stock of multi-purpose engravings created by the ABNC and not created specifically for these notes. It was used on the front of an Ecuadorian banknote of 1901 (see below). An earlier use is on an Oregon Railroad $1000 bond of 1896. This vignette also appears on a 1910 bond for the Bank of Peru and London, engraved by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co, of London (acquired by ABNC in 1909). The ABNco reference code is C - 239. (front) freight and passenger trains on the 'Zigzag Railway' “之字形铁路”, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway built in 1905. (back) masted steam ship. There is one color type only. |
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Orange (with violet, blue, green) (as example right) Other branches and signatures, and signature combinations other than those listed below are likely. There is no signature information available at all for many branch issues. Many of these are known only as specimens. Serials, blue. Known prefix: - A,B,C,D,E,F,G Branches -/- signatures (numbers refer to signatures shown above) Chefoo (Yantai) 煙台 (烟台) - (p: -) Chungking (Chongqing) 重慶 (重庆). Issued from 1938 to before 1942 (SCWPM 119a) - 17+18 (p: -,A,B,C,D,E,F,G) Hankow (Hankou) 漢口 (汉口), some with red control Chinese characters - 3+4 (p: -) Honan (Henan) 河南 - 3+4 (p: -) Kalgan (Zhangjiakou) 張家口 (张家口) (SCWPM 119b) - Kiangsu (Jiangsu) 江蘇 (江苏) - 3+4 (p: -) Kiukiang (Jiujiang) 九江 (SCWPM 119e) - (p: -) Shanghai 上海 (SCWPM 119c) - 3+4 (p: -), 17+18 Shantung (Shandong) 山東 (山东) - Changhchun 長春 (长春) - Peking (Beijing) 北京 (SCWPM 119f) - 7+4 (p: -) Anhwei (Anhui) 安徽 - Fengtien (Mukden, Shenyang) 奉天 - Tientsin (Tianjin) 天津 (SCWPM 119d) - 3+4 (p: -), 7+4 (p: -), 8+6 (p: -), 13+14 (p: -), 13+16 (p: -) Tientsin (Tianjin) 天津 (SCWPM 119-) with 'H' control letter for Hankow (Hanzhou) - |
Above: an Ecuador 2 Sucres of 1901, printed by the American Banknote Company. This uses this same vignette as that of the 1914 50 Yuan.
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100 yuan - 壹百圆
One Hundred yuan of the National Coinage of the Republic of China. October 1st 1914.
The back vignette image was selected from a stock of multi-purpose engravings created by the ABNC and not created specifically for these notes. The full version of this vignette appears on a railroad bond of the 1900s (see below).
(front) Train crossing a bridge, (possibly Luan River Bridge nr Peking 滦河大桥 but more likely a US scene). (back) steam train.
There is one color type only.
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Purple (with salmon and green) (as example right)
A few are known with control overprints. Other branches and signatures, and signature combinations other than those listed below are likely. There is no signature information available at all for many branch issues. Many of these are known only as specimens. Serials, red. Known prefix: A,B Branches -/- signatures (numbers refer to signatures shown above) Chefoo (Yantai) 煙台 (烟台) - (p: -) Chungking (Chongqing) 重慶 (重庆). Issued from 1938 to before 1942 (SCWPM 120a) - 17+18 (p: -, A,B) Hankow (Hankou) 漢口 (汉口), some with red control Chinese characters - 3+4 (p: -) Honan (Henan) 河南 - (p: -) Kalgan (Zhangjiakou) 張家口 (张家口) (SCWPM 120b) - (p: -) Kiangsu (Jiangsu) 江蘇 (江苏) - (p: -) Kiukiang (Jiujiang) 九江 (SCWPM 120e) - (p: -) Shanghai 上海 (SCWPM 120c) - 17+18 (p: -) Shantung (Shandong) 山東 (山东) - Changhchun 長春 (长春) - (p: -) Peking (Beijing) 北京 (SCWPM 120f) - 7+4 (p: -), Anhwei (Anhui) 安徽 - Mukden, (Fengtien, Shenyang) 奉天 - 3+4 (p: -) Tientsin (Tianjin) 天津 (SCWPM 120d) - 3+4 (p: -), 13+14 (p: -) Tientsin (Tianjin) 天津 (SCWPM 119-) with 'H' control letter for Hankow (Hanzhou) - |
Above: the vignette from the upper portion of a Michigan Central Railroad Company $1000 bond of c1900-1910, printed by the American Banknote Company. The left side of the vignette was cropped to provide the back image for the 100 Yuan of 1914.
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Below: photographic proofs of two sets of rejected alternative designs for the Series of 1914, by the American Banknote Company. As with the issued notes, the upper set is designated as 'National Coinage of the Republic of China', the lower group however are marked 'Local Currency. Payable to Bearer'.
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