Asia Money
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • China
  • Index
Page One: $1   -   Page Two: $5   - Page Three: $10 -   Page Four: $50, $100   -   Control Markings
(26 Feb 2018) July 2021

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
​
​
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
1
Zhao Qinghua
​赵庆华, Hankow (Hankou) branch manager
 2
Kiang ShihTeh (Jiang Shide) 江世德
Manager
​c1917
3
​Xie Linying 谢霖
 (1885-1969)

​Manager c1917
4
Coa Rulin 曹汝霖
(​1877-1966)
​General Manager from  January 1917, resigned in 1921? ​
5
Bao Peizhi 包培之 (Pao Kuang Yung)
6
​Chang Chien (Zhang Jian) 张謇 (1853-1926) - Governor
1922 - 1925

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
7
​Chen Fuyi
陈福颐 (1881-?)

8
Zhang Ying?
Yang Yinsun (​杨荫荪)?
9
Sheng Zhushu 
盛竹书 (1860-1927), Shanghai branch manager

10
Unidentified signature only observed on one 1914 circulated 1 Yuan, and a 5 Yuan specimen, of the Anhui branch
11
​Unidentified signature only observed on one 1914 1 Yuan of the Honan branch
12
​Unidentified signature only observed on one 1914 1 Yuan of the Honan branch

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
13
​Lei Chao 李钟楚 (Li Zhongchu) 鍣
Manager (Tsingtao, Tientsin)
1923 - 1933
14
​Lu Xuepu 卢学溥
​
(1877-1956)
Chairman
1928-1933
15
Hu Meng-chia, T.D Woo, 胡孟嘉
​(1888-1936)
Assistant Manager Shanghai Branch
1922 - 1927,
General Manager
1928 - 1933
16
​Liang Shiyi/Shizhen
 梁士诒
​(1869-1933)

General Manager
1918 - 1922 and
​1925 - 1928
17
​Tang Shoumin 唐寿民
General Manager 1933 - c1940
18
Wang Zisong 王子崧
Manager
1933 - 1942?
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
13b
As above
14b
As above
​​15b
As above
16b
As above
​17b​
As above
18b
​​​As above

Picture
19
​Liang Rucheng
​梁汝成, a signature found on a 5 Yuan of 1914 (branch unknown


50 yuan - 伍拾圓


​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.  
​
Picture

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) -

​
Picture
Picture
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. 

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.  
​
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) -
Picture
Picture
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.  

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'. 
​
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Forward to: The Control Markings of the 1914 Series
Back to the China Index

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.