1 Yuan, China & South Sea Bank, Shanghai, China, 1931
date: label: date made
content: 1931
name: label: maker
content: Waterlow & Sons Limited
notes: label: Crowdsourcing
content: Transcribed by Smithsonian digital volunteers
label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) yuan note
label: Description (Brief)
content: China & South Sea Bank, Shanghai, China, 1931
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Name of bank at top, denomination at center, Sundial to the left.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: 壹 / 壹 / ZN991170 / 中南銀行 / 中華民國二十年印 / ZN991170 / 壹 / 壹 / 上海天津一律通用 / 上海 / 內有水印 / 請勿塗寫 / 壹圓 / 上海 / 壹 / 壹 / COUNTERSIGNED / 政府特許發行 / 憑票即付中華民國國幣壹圓正 / MANAGING DIRECTOR / 壹 / 壹 / 倫敦華德路公司印
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Name of bank at top, denomination at the center.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: 1 / THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK LIMITED / PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT ITS OFFICE HERE / 1 / ZN991170 / 1 / ZN991170 / 上海天津一律通用 / 上海天津一律通用 / ONE YUAN / OF THE NATIONAL COINAGE OF / THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA / ISSUED BY SPECIAL PERMISSION OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT / 1 / SHANGHAI / JANUARY 1951 / 1 / WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED LONDON / 74.17.687
label: Description
content: [[Obverse Text]]
label: Description
content: 壹 / 壹 / ZN991170 / 中南銀行 / 中華民國二十年印 / ZN991170 / 壹 / 壹 / 上海天津一律通用 / 上海 / 內有水印 / 請勿塗寫 / 壹圓 / 上海 / 壹 / 壹 / COUNTERSIGNED / 政府特許發行 / 憑票即付中華民國國幣壹圓正 / MANAGING DIRECTOR / 壹 / 壹 / 倫敦華德路公司印
label: Description
content: [[Translation]]
label: Description
content: one / one / ZN991170 / The China & South Sea Bank Limited / printed in year twenty of the Republic of China / ZN991170 / one / one / usable in Shanghai and Tianjin / Shanghai / watermark contained within / please do not write on the banknote / one yuan / Shanghai / one / one / COUNTERSIGNED / issued by special permission by the Chinese government / use this note to pay national currency one yuan / MANAGING DIRECTOR / one / one / printed by Waterlow & Sons Limited London
label: Description
content: [[Reverse Text]]
label: Description
content: 1 / THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK LIMITED / PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT ITS OFFICE HERE / 1 / ZN991170 / 1 / ZN991170 / 上海天津一律通用 / 上海天津一律通用 / ONE YUAN / OF THE NATIONAL COINAGE OF / THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA / ISSUED BY SPECIAL PERMISSION OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT / 1 / SHANGHAI / JANUARY 1951 / 1 / WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED LONDON / 74.17.687
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China
label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Chinese Banknotes
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content: Chinese Paper Money
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content: NNC Chinese Bank Notes
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content: NNC_Transcription_Center_Chinese_Banknote_06
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mr. and Mrs. James C. Leigh
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.74.17.687
label: accession number
content: 315247
label: catalog number
content: 74.17.687
label: serial number
content: ZN991170
objectType: label: Object Name
content: note
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.2 cm x 13.5 cm x .01 cm; 3 7/32 in x 5 5/16 in x in