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1 Great Yuan Tainan Silver Note
| Issuer | Tainan Official Bank Note General Bureau (臺南官銀錢票總局) |
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| Year | 1895 |
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| Currency | Great Yuan (1895) |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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| Variants | P#1904a - thick paper P#1904b - thin paper P#1904c - reissue with two additonal smaller vertical Chinese character overprint |
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The Tainan Official Bank Note General Bureau existed for a matter of weeks. It was established by the short-lived Taiwan Republic — the "Democratic Republic of Formosa" declared on 25 May 1895 in direct response to the Qing cession of Taiwan to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki — and collapsed when Japanese forces entered Tainan in October of that year. This note is among the very few paper money issues that can be attributed to that republic with any confidence.
Printed locally rather than by one of the established continental Chinese banknote presses, the production quality reflects the circumstances of a provisional government operating under imminent military pressure.