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5 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 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 臺南 官銀票 官銀錢票錢總局 憑几票支付 圳平銀伍大員 照 光緒廿一年柒月初一 (Translation: Tainan Official banknote General administrator of official banking Payable according to quantity of notes: 7-3 silver tael. Five big yuan Guangxu year 21, 1st of the 7th month) |
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| Variants | P#1905a - thick paper P#1905b - thin paper P#1905c - 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 officials of the short-lived Taiwan Republic — the "Republic of Formosa" declared in May 1895 following the Qing cession of Taiwan to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki — as a desperate attempt to fund military resistance against the incoming Japanese forces. Japanese troops entered Tainan in October 1895, effectively ending the republic after roughly five months.
Notes of this issue are among the earliest paper currency produced on Taiwanese soil under a locally constituted authority. Circulation was negligible; the issuing institution collapsed before any meaningful distribution could occur.