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href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> (simplified Chinese: 大清宝钞; traditional Chinese: 大清寶鈔; pinyin: Dà Qīng Bǎo Chāo) or Da-Qing Baochao refers to a series of <a href="/wiki/Paper_money_of_the_Qing_dynasty" title="Paper money of the Qing dynasty">Qing dynasty banknotes</a> issued under the reign of the <a href="/wiki/Xianfeng_Emperor" title="Xianfeng Emperor">Xianfeng Emperor</a> issued between the years 1853 (Xianfeng 3) and 1859 (Xianfeng 9). These banknotes were all denominated in <a href="/wiki/Chinese_cash_(currency_unit)" title="Chinese cash (currency unit)">wén</a> and were usually introduced to the general market through the salaries of soldiers and government officials. After the <a href="/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion" title="Taiping Rebellion">Taiping Rebellion</a> had depleted the imperial treasury of the <a href="/wiki/Qing_dynasty" title="Qing dynasty">Qing dynasty</a> the government reformed the <a href="/wiki/Cash_(Chinese_coin)" title="Cash (Chinese coin)">cash coin system</a> to include higher denominations with low intrinsic values essentially creating a <a href="/wiki/Fiat_currency" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiat currency">fiat currency</a>; this was a radical departure from China's past where the value of cash coins was dependent on their weight rather than any denominations. The same developments which lead to the creation of the new <a href="/w/index.php?title=Xianfeng_coinage&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Xianfeng coinage (page does not exist)">Xianfeng coinage</a> had also necessitated the reintroduction of <a href="/wiki/Paper_money" class="mw-redirect" title="Paper money">paper money</a> in China after it was absent for two centuries. The new paper currency came in two forms, one was the copper-alloy cash coins-based Great Qing Treasure Note and the other was the <a href="/wiki/Silver" title="Silver">silver</a> <a href="/wiki/Sycee" title="Sycee">sycee</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Hubu_Guanpiao" title="Hubu Guanpiao">Hubu Guanpiao</a> (戶部官票) which were both introduced simultaneously with the new debased cash coinage.<a href="#cite_note-HoreshQing-2">[2]</a> However, the government did not keep adequate reserves of <a href="/wiki/Hard_currency" title="Hard currency">hard currency</a> to back the new banknotes up. Many provincial governments didn't allow for taxes to be paid using paper money, and after a few years the government started refusing to convert the new paper money into hard currency; consequently, the Chinese people started to distrust it as a valid <a href="/wiki/Medium_of_exchange" title="Medium of exchange">medium of exchange</a>. In response to the ever more expensive military expenditures caused by the Taiping Rebellion, the government produced more and more high denomination banknotes, which were not convertible. This caused <a href="/wiki/Hyperinflation" title="Hyperinflation">hyperinflation</a>; by the year Xianfeng 9 (1859) the currency had become completely depreciated and was abolished. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Earlier_Qing_dynasty_banknotes">Earlier Qing dynasty banknotes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Earlier Qing dynasty banknotes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hubu_Guanpiao" title="Hubu Guanpiao">Hubu Guanpiao</a></div> During the <a href="/wiki/Transition_from_Ming_to_Qing" title="Transition from Ming to Qing">transition from Ming to Qing</a> the Manchu government-issued banknotes known as <a href="/wiki/Hubu_Guanpiao" title="Hubu Guanpiao">Hubu Guanpiao</a> (戶部官票) or <a href="/wiki/Shunzhi_Guanpiao" class="mw-redirect" title="Shunzhi Guanpiao">Shunzhi Guanpiao</a> (順治官票) or Shunzhi Chaoguan (順治鈔貫)<a href="#cite_note-ExclusiveCoinsShanghaiMuseum-3">[3]</a> which were first issued in the year 1651 on initiative of the Minister of Revenue, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wei_Xiangshu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wei Xiangshu (page does not exist)">Wei Xiangshu</a> (魏象樞) during the war with <a href="/wiki/Southern_Ming_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Ming dynasty">the remnants of the Ming dynasty</a> to cover the more immediate expenses of the Manchus as the finances of the Qing during this period were in dire distress, these banknotes were declared void only a decade after their issued. An annual amount of 128,000 <a href="/wiki/String_of_cash_coins_(currency_unit)" title="String of cash coins (currency unit)">guàn</a> (貫) of these early Manchu banknotes were issued, with a total sum of 1.28 million guàn being produced before they were abolished. The denominations of the Hubu Guanpiao followed the pattern of the <a href="/wiki/Da_Ming_Baochao" class="mw-redirect" title="Da Ming Baochao">Ming dynasty period paper notes</a>, but as historiographical sources about the early Qing era paper money are scarce, not much can be known about them.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-QingPaperMoney-6">[6]</a> <a href="/wiki/Peng_Xinwei" title="Peng Xinwei">Peng Xinwei</a> suggested that the Manchu rulers of the Qing were very much atavistic towards the inflationary pressure that the <a href="/wiki/Jin_dynasty_(1115%E2%80%931234)" title="Jin dynasty (1115–1234)">earlier Jurchen Empire</a> experienced after they had abused their ability to print <a href="/wiki/Jiaochao" title="Jiaochao">Jiaochao</a> banknotes. Modern scholars argue that the banknotes issued during the Shunzhi period, while only brief, likely entrenched the reluctance of the Qing dynasty to issue banknotes because this issue also proved inflationary confirming their fears.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> It has been suggested by <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwanese</a> economic historian <a href="/wiki/Lin_Man-houng" title="Lin Man-houng">Lin Man-houng</a> that Chinese money shops did not start with the production of their own private banknotes until the end of the <a href="/wiki/Qianlong_Emperor" title="Qianlong Emperor">Qianlong period</a>, these shops were very likely to have been more developed in <a href="/wiki/Northern_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern China">Northern China</a>, where these money shops produced banknotes which were mostly denominated in cash coins while banknotes from <a href="/wiki/Southern_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern China">Southern China</a> tended to be denominated in taels of silver.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> It is also possible that private-order banknotes could have emerged earlier in the 18th century and that their presence would become very common by the 1820s.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_and_monetary_background">Economic and monetary background</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Economic and monetary background">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Hubu_Guanpiao#Economic_and_monetary_background" title="Hubu Guanpiao">Hubu Guanpiao § Economic and monetary background</a></div> The precursor of <a href="/wiki/Paper_money" class="mw-redirect" title="Paper money">paper money</a> (紙幣) known as "<a href="/wiki/Flying_cash" title="Flying cash">flying cash</a>" were issued by the <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty" title="Tang dynasty">Tang dynasty</a>; however, these bills of exchange could in no way be considered to be a form of paper money as they weren't meant to be a <a href="/wiki/Medium_of_exchange" title="Medium of exchange">medium of exchange</a> and were only negotiable between two distant points.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> The first true paper money in the world was issued under the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song dynasty</a>, these were <a href="/wiki/Promissory_note" title="Promissory note">promissory notes</a> issued by merchants in <a href="/wiki/Sichuan" title="Sichuan">Sichuan</a> known as the <a href="/wiki/Jiaozi_(currency)" title="Jiaozi (currency)">Jiaozi</a>,<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> under the reign of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Zhenzong" title="Emperor Zhenzong">Emperor Zhenzong</a> (997–1022) the government of the Song dynasty granted a monopoly for the production of Jiaozi notes to sixteen wealthy merchants in Sichuan, as these merchants were slow to redeem their banknotes and inflation started affecting these private banknotes the government <a href="/wiki/Nationalisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalisation">nationalised</a> paper money in the year 1023 under the Bureau of Exchange. As these paper notes were backed by the government they were instantly successful and the people regarded them to be equally trustworthy as <a href="/wiki/Cash_(Chinese_coin)" title="Cash (Chinese coin)">cash coins</a>, other types of paper notes issued under the Song dynasty include the <a href="/wiki/Huizi_(currency)" title="Huizi (currency)">Huizi</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Guanzi_(currency)" title="Guanzi (currency)">Guanzi</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> Before the <a href="/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Mongol Empire</a> conquered China the <a href="/wiki/Jin_dynasty_(1115%E2%80%931234)" title="Jin dynasty (1115–1234)">Jin dynasty</a> also issued paper money.<a href="#cite_note-Inner_Mongolian-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-DailyHistorySongPaperMoney-15">[15]</a> Before the establishment of the Ming dynasty the <a href="/wiki/Mongol_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongol people">Mongol</a> <a href="/wiki/Yuan_dynasty" title="Yuan dynasty">Yuan dynasty</a> had suffered from a severe case of <a href="/wiki/Hyperinflation" title="Hyperinflation">hyperinflation</a> which made the paper money issued by them worthless.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> Under the reign of the Yuan dynasty <a href="/wiki/Yuan_dynasty_coinage" title="Yuan dynasty coinage">copper cash coins</a> remained in circulation with the inscriptions Zhida Tongbao (至大通寶), Dayuan Tongbao (大元通寶), and Zhizheng Tongbao (至正通寶) forming the majority of the circulating issues and "<a href="/wiki/String_of_cash_coins_(currency_unit)" title="String of cash coins (currency unit)">strings of cash coins</a>" remaining a currency unit.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> <a href="/wiki/Silver" title="Silver">Silver</a> then started to occupy a paramount place in the Mongol economy and was supplemented by <a href="/wiki/Chao_(currency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chao (currency)">government issued paper money</a>.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> Under the reign of <a href="/wiki/Kublai_Khan" title="Kublai Khan">Kublai Khan</a> the Zhongtong Jiaochao (中統交鈔) was issued whose value was based on the fabric <a href="/wiki/Silk" title="Silk">silk</a>. Under the reign of <a href="/wiki/K%C3%BCl%C3%BCg_Khan" title="Külüg Khan">Külüg Khan</a> in the year 1308 the Zhiyuan Baochao (至元寶鈔) was issued which was supplemented with the silver-based Zhida Yinchao (至大銀鈔), but these circulated only for a year. The final series of paper money issued by the government of the Yuan dynasty from 1350 were the Zhizheng Jiaochao (至正交鈔). A major difference between how paper money was used under the Mongols and under the Song dynasty was that, in certain regions of the Yuan dynasty, paper notes were the only acceptable form of currency and <a href="/wiki/Fiat_currency" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiat currency">could not be exchanged in either copper cash coins or silver sycees</a>. Exchanging paper money into copper or silver was known as duìxiàn (兌現, "convert into specie") which was the main reason why earlier forms of paper money were deemed reliable. As these regions were completely dependent on paper money inflation hit them more severely as their notes could not be converted into a currency based on any intrinsic value, for this reason the Mongols allowed their subjects to continue using copper-alloy cash coins and issued new ones every now and then. During the last few decades of the Yuan dynasty the inflation caused people to lose their trust in paper money and <a href="/wiki/Barter" title="Barter">barter</a> became the most common means of exchange.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> During the beginning of <a href="/wiki/Manchu_people" title="Manchu people">Manchu</a> rule over China in the year 1644, the total imperial revenues of the Qing dynasty were an approximated 30,000,000 <a href="/wiki/Tael" title="Tael">taels</a>. Imperial Government expenditures at the time were correspondingly modest. During the balanced periods in Qing dynasty history of the 17th and 18th centuries imperial revenue consistently exceeded government expenditures, which resulted in a tidy cash surplus in the Imperial Chinese Treasury. The vastness of China created poor communications across government offices and a general looseness of administration encouraged all sorts of irregularities across the country. During the course of the <a href="/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion" title="Taiping Rebellion">Taiping Rebellion</a> China would see ⅓ of its people die utterly devastating its economy in the process. Of China's 18 wealthiest <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_China" title="Provinces of China">provinces</a> 12 were left in ruins, this would put a heavy strain on the resources of the government of the Qing dynasty putting it near breaking point as the rebellion had sown the seeds for further calamities which would hurt the <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_China" title="Economy of China">economy of China</a> even more and ultimately led to the downfall of the Qing dynasty during the next century. The main source of income for the government of the Qing dynasty was taxation.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The Taiping Rebellion was the largest civil war that China had experienced up until that point. The Qing dynasty Army of the Green Standard and its bannermen had long since fallen into decay, revealing the decrepit state of the Chinese military.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Near the end of the year 1851, the Ministry of Revenue in Beijing promulgated the Statutes for Raising Military Funds (餉事例).<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> After repeated defeats on the field of battle suffered by the Chinese government, new armies and new types of armies had to be raised. For this task the Emperor was forced to turn to the provinces. Eventually, the imperial Chinese government had no recourse other than to place full responsibility in these newly formed units led by local warlords and aristocrats. <a href="/wiki/Zeng_Guofan" title="Zeng Guofan">Zeng Guofan</a>, the architect of eventual victory over the <a href="/wiki/Taiping_Heavenly_Kingdom" title="Taiping Heavenly Kingdom">Taiping Heavenly Kingdom</a>, was given unprecedented powers in this pursuit. By January of the year 1862 conditions had worsened.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Zeng's troops now only received 40% of their pay, and even so, payment fell as much as 15 months behind. Desertions now began occurring for the first time in 9 years of fighting.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The government withdrew from conventional modes of centralised war financing as it has been proven ineffective. In turn, it allowed the Chinese provinces a greater flexibility in raising revenues than before, mainly by greatly expanding <a href="/w/index.php?title=Office_selling_(China)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Office selling (China) (page does not exist)">office selling</a>, a time-honored Chinese fiscal emergency measure of the Ministry of Revenue in the capital city but this was never used on such a scale by provincial and military administrations. The offices being sols were those of jiansheng (監生) and gongsheng (貢生).<a href="#cite_note-Brill2015-25">[25]</a> Silver ingots known as <a href="/wiki/Sycee" title="Sycee">sycees</a> have been a part of the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Chinese_currency" title="History of Chinese currency">Chinese monetary system</a> since around the <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty" title="Tang dynasty">Tang</a> and <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song dynasties</a>, but due to the natural scarcity of silver in China were rare and the use of silver currency was limited to the upper classes of <a href="/wiki/Chinese_society" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese society">Chinese society</a> and their use was to be given as tribute, to pay bribes, to give away as gifts, silver sycees were also used as a method of transporting large funds over long distances as well as for hoarding wealth, and was used by the government to pay military expenses.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockSilverTaelNotes-26">[26]</a> This all changed when <a href="/wiki/China-Portugal_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="China-Portugal relations">the Ming dynasty started trading with the Portuguese</a> during the 16th century, large amounts of European silver would enter the trading port of <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> leading to a large surplus of the metal in China as merchants began using silver to pay their taxes with. The amounts of silver flowing in increased dramatically after the Qing dynasty was forced to open more ports following the <a href="/wiki/Opium_Wars" title="Opium Wars">Opium Wars</a>. Since the circulating silver sycee in China was rarely of the same degree of fineness, a standard unit of account had to be devised, this unit of exchange for accounting silver came to be known in <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> as the "<a href="/wiki/Tael" title="Tael">tael</a>" (which is pronounced the same as the English word "tail").<a href="#cite_note-SandrockSilverTaelNotes-26">[26]</a> The tael itself was not a form of currency, but rather a weight used to represent one pure ounce of commercial silver. As China was a rather large country where local customs tended to vary widely, an ounce would oftentimes in one place not necessarily be an ounce in another part of China. Consequently, a large variety of different scales were employed all over China by different trades, each of these scales varying somewhat from the other scales that were used in different fields of commerce.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockSilverTaelNotes-26">[26]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tong_Tai_Money_Shop_-_private_banknote_(Tao_Kuang_era).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Tong_Tai_Money_Shop_-_private_banknote_%28Tao_Kuang_era%29.jpg/220px-Tong_Tai_Money_Shop_-_private_banknote_%28Tao_Kuang_era%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="356" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Tong_Tai_Money_Shop_-_private_banknote_%28Tao_Kuang_era%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="309" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>A privately produced banknote from the <a href="/wiki/Daoguang_Emperor" title="Daoguang Emperor">Daoguang era</a> Tong Tai Money Shop. During this era the Manchu government did not produce its own banknotes.</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Xianfeng_Emperor" title="Xianfeng Emperor">Xianfeng Emperor</a> can't be completely blamed for the monetary crisis the Qing dynasty experienced during this era. The monetary policy of the Qing government had been effective for over 160 years, yet under the <a href="/wiki/Daoguang_Emperor" title="Daoguang Emperor">Daoguang Emperor</a>'s reign, which preceded that of Xianfeng, inherent problems to the system were becoming evident. 3 principal issues with the system arose.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> First, <a href="/wiki/Cash_(Chinese_coin)" title="Cash (Chinese coin)">cash coinage</a> became debased due to dishonest officials and the failure of the copper supply dependent on the copper mines of <a href="/wiki/Yunnan" title="Yunnan">Yunnan</a> which had been interdicted by the rebels. Secondly, the Chinese silver sector, with its system of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Loofang&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Loofang (page does not exist)">Loofang</a> (which was the private smelting of sycees),<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> was never able to adequately fulfil the demands of Chinese commercial sector; and thirdly, the Qing dynasty was ruled by a government which proved incapable of enforcing the monetary policy which had worked so well for previous dynasties.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> All these factors reached a climax around the year Xianfeng 3 (1853).<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> By this time the rebel armies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had conquered the city of <a href="/wiki/Nanjing" title="Nanjing">Nanjing</a> and established their capital there. Which called for measures beyond traditional solutions.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> By the time of this occurrence the imperial Chinese treasury was as good as empty. Zeng Guofan realized that his army could not survive off the land in rebel infested Anhui, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces. Since the around the end of the year 1858 Jiangxi province had been molested very little by the Taiping rebels, Zeng became dependent upon the province of Jiangxi for his military supplies and made its defense an essential part of his counter-rebellion strategy.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The main sources of income of the province at the time were agriculturally based; however, the collection of statistical data collected by the bureaucratic apparatus upon which the taxation system was based was often completely disrupted during Taiping incursions into the area, thus depriving the Ministry of Revenue of its base upon which to collect these taxes. This resulted that land taxes and grain tributes which were the 2 principal sources of revenue, were in large measure not paid to the central government in Beijing.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> additionally, taxes that were collected were often diverted to the local provincial treasuries to defray provincial military expenses. To make up in part for these losses, the lijin tax was introduced. During the entire Taiping Rebellion there were never sufficient funds to run the Chinese government and pay the army to crush the rebellion.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> These <a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_premodern_China" title="Taxation in premodern China">taxes collected by the imperial Chinese government</a> took many different forms; the most important of which were the land tax system, the grain tribute, the imperial customs revenue system, the tax on the salt monopoly, lijin, and miscellaneous taxes and duties imposed on the people. From ancient times the land tax had produced up to ⅔ of the Chinese government's total revenue.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> In China, historically all land within its territory was considered to be the property of the <a href="/wiki/Emperor_of_China" title="Emperor of China">Emperor</a>, the monarch having acquired it through conquest. How this land was used, however, was left to those that occupied and lived on it in return for a yearly tax based upon the rental value of the land in question. In the year 1713 the <a href="/wiki/Kangxi_Emperor" title="Kangxi Emperor">Kangxi Emperor</a> had fixed the rent collected by the imperial Chinese government at ¾ tael per 6 mou (or 1 acre) of land and issued a decree that this ratio should stand for all time unchanged.<a href="#cite_note-CambridgeInflation-30">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> From time to time however the actual land tax collected by the Chinese government was reduced in some areas where necessary as a result of natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes and human disasters such as rebellions and insurrections.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The Chinese provinces most devastated by the Taiping Rebellion which were <a href="/wiki/Anhui" title="Anhui">Anhui</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zhejiang" title="Zhejiang">Zhejiang</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henan" title="Henan">Henan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jiangxi" title="Jiangxi">Jiangxi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jiangsu" title="Jiangsu">Jiangsu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guizhou" title="Guizhou">Guizhou</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sichuan" title="Sichuan">Sichuan</a> enjoyed a governmental sanctioned "tax break" for decades due to the destruction that was wreaked upon them by the Taiping Rebellion.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> This "tax break" accounted for much loss of imperial government revenue which it had previously gained from those provinces. The proceeds of the land tax money collected during this era at the provincial level were substantially decreased. Severe irregularities and mass extortion commonly took place on the part of local tax collectors.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The second most important tax collected by the imperial Chinese government was the grain tribute.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Yearly quotas were set, but these quotas were limited to only the 15 provinces with fertile soil which were all situated along the basin of the Yangtze River. The quotas set up by the Imperial Chinese government were assessed based upon local grain productivity in these provinces.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The Chinese government levered duties on customs and goods which entered China since ancient times dating to the same era as the land era. With the forced opening of the Qing dynasty's doors after the Opium Wars and the following increase in maritime trade with foreign nations, the customs duties took on a vastly expanded level of importance in the Chinese taxation system. Before the year 1854 the same rather lax administration and sleight of hand was practiced with the collection of the import customs as the Chinese government exercised with the land tax.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> In September 1853 an event happened which would change the way these customs were collected forever, and in the process, this event resulted transforming the Chinese maritime customs into a competent and highly efficient force for acquiring tax revenue for the Chinese government. In September of the year 1853 the Taiping rebels, fighting their way down the Yangtze valley while leaving a lot of destruction in their wake, threatened the port city of <a href="/wiki/Shanghai" title="Shanghai">Shanghai</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The loyal Chinese government officials lost no time in fleeing to <a href="/wiki/Shanghai_International_Settlement" title="Shanghai International Settlement">Shanghai's International Settlement</a> which was protected by guns of foreign warships stationed there. The Customs House of Shanghai by this time had been abandoned.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Foreign traders and businessmen, refusing to pay duties to unauthorized Chinese officials, came to declare their imported goods instead to their representative consulates in the city until the Chinese Customs House could be reopened. This resulted to a considerable amount of workload for these foreign consulates, as the funds raised through customs duties were based upon a 5% <a href="/wiki/Ad_valorem" class="mw-redirect" title="Ad valorem">ad valorem</a> tax on all imports and exports in Shanghai.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The foreign consular officials, who were unable to cope with this high volume, set up the Maritime Customs Service to be run by <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a>, and <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> consular representatives and gave this office the task of collecting all customs duties on traded goods. As at the time only the British inspector was able to speak <a href="/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese" title="Mandarin Chinese">Mandarin Chinese</a>, he was handed the office of the Inspector General.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> It was very rare for contemporary Chinese merchants who came into the Shanghai International Settlement to have had any prior contact with Western people. These people now could now observe western business practices and their administration at very close quarters. Some of these refugees who fled into the International Settlement were quick to realise that their country would benefit if China was to follow the West's example. These impressions of foreign business acumen gained during this era, together with cooperation arising out of need in this chaotic time in Chinese history, would lead to the creation of the first native Chinese modern shipping companies and similar business enterprises.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The Imperial Maritime Customs was organised so well that it would become a model of efficiency, so efficient in fact that the British would never relinquish their control of this system during imperial China, the Manchus would continue this arrangement to the end of the Qing dynasty.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Since ancient times in China, the salt trade was treated as a government monopoly. <a href="/w/index.php?title=John_E._Sandrock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John E. Sandrock (page does not exist)">John E. Sandrock</a> described the administration of this commodity to be "so complicated, that by comparison, it would make a <a href="/wiki/Rubik%27s_cube" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubik's cube">Rubik's cube</a> look like mere child's play."<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> As the commodity of salt was not uniformly distributed throughout Chinese territory, China was divided into many districts in an attempt to equalise natural conditions in various places.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> A timetable of tax collection was composed such as the Chinese salt traffic would bear. Consumers near the sea were taxed much higher, for example, this fact would be motivational to everyone to inspire them to evaporate their own salt, while in places where no salt was produced too high a tax would drive consumption down thereby reducing the revenues made. By this act of fine tuning the Chinese salt tax the Imperial Treasury of China kept up a steady flow of income of significant proportions.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The 5th of the imperial revenue sources was also by far the most diversified. These were the "miscellaneous taxes and duties", this category included everything imaginable to be taxed. There were separate taxes on deeds, <a href="/wiki/Wine" title="Wine">wine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tobacco" title="Tobacco">tobacco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tea" title="Tea">tea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sugar" title="Sugar">sugar</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Timber" class="mw-redirect" title="Timber">timber</a> to list a few. Operating a business was taxed. There was a mining tax mining, a butcher tax, a pawnshop tax, and a fishing tax. In reality, only very little has actually changed over the years. Duties were levied on goods such as grain, silk, cattle, wagons, oil, cotton, camels, bamboo, sulfur, cloth among others.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Despite the large range of the above taxes and duties, each tax in and of itself was very minor and of small consequence to the individual in China, however in the aggregate, it was of great significance to the Chinese government. Collecting and accounting for this diverse revenue constituted a real nightmare of administration for imperial Chinese government tax agencies.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> As a way to enhance the revenue the Chinese government introduced the <a href="/wiki/Likin_(taxation)" title="Likin (taxation)">Lijin tax</a> (釐金, "a contribution of a thousandth" in Mandarin Chinese, or 1‰) which would prove to be very successful; however, this tax severely hampered trade and commence.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-ChinaAndManchusC8-36">[36]</a> The lijin was a tax imposed upon traded commodities. Lijin collection points were established along all highways and waterways in China.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Additionally, the lijin tax was collected at every border crossing between Chinese provinces and at all city gates. Lumber originating on the upper Yalu River and bound for the capital city of Beijing has to pass through no less than 68 inspection stations to be taxed. The lijin collected added no less than 17% to the cost of this material. The lijin tax limited the amount collected in any one province to 10%. The tolls collected on passing commodities substantially slowed the flow of business within China.<a href="#cite_note-CambridgeInflation-30">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The lijin system would survive the fall of the Qing dynasty as it was a major source of revenue. The lijin tax would constitute the principal source of income for the Chinese provinces and was most essential to the military operations conducted by Zeng Guofan. The Ministry of Revenue assigned which funds had to be sent to the central government in Beijing and which could be retained for local provincial use. The fact that, at times, the military payment of provincial troops was 8 to 9 months in some areas established that the money more often went to Beijing than to the coffers of the provincial governments.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> One scheme the imperial Chinese government introduced to raise funds was to allow provincial governments to sell Imperial Academy degrees, the profits from this were collected into a fund known as the jiansheng silver fund (監銀). Under the reign of the <a href="/wiki/Daoguang_Emperor" title="Daoguang Emperor">Daoguang Emperor</a>, provincial treasuries kept approximately 48% of the money made from this scheme in provincial grain reserves known as Changpingcang (常平倉) and provincial silver reserves known as fengzhuyin (封貯銀), the Ministry of Revenue was attempting to get their hands on ⅓ of these reserves, factually borrowing against the predicted income of the provincial Jiansheng silver funds which was feeding these reserves.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> This scheme was only functional if the imperial Chinese government had status awards (which were symbolic capital) which people would actually want to purchase using real economic capital, the imperial government would have to be able to arbitrarily dictate the prices for these symbolic awards, and would also have maintained complete control over the selling process for these awards.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> Chinese censor <a href="/w/index.php?title=Huashana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Huashana (page does not exist)">Huashana</a> (花沙納) was highly critical of the Ministry of Revenue's profit-generating plan to start selling provincial examination degrees and titles (舉人), this had in the history of China never been allowed to be sold before showcasing how desperate the Ministry of Revenue was at the time for generating money to continue fighting the expensive war. Huashana praised the idea of producing paper money as a far better alternative to selling offices and degrees, but despite his anti-office selling stance he did not advocate for it to be abolished.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECh'ên1958582-39">[39]</a> During the 19th century, Chinese trade in commodities such as tea, silk, and grain was of such a large volume that this trade actually taxed the capabilities of the copper-alloy cash coins-based currency system of China. During this period imperial Chinese revenues had to be remitted to the capital city of Beijing and provisional salaries paid. At the time the transportation of large sums of precious metal bullion was both expensive and risky to undertake.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockSilverTaelNotes-26">[26]</a> However, with the outbreak of the Taiping rebellion the business of transacting funds and revenue became even more dangerous. In order to overcome these new difficulties the existing <a href="/wiki/Shanxi_bank" class="mw-redirect" title="Shanxi bank">Shanxi banks</a> (票号, "draft banks" or "remittance banks", which had earned this nickname as most remittance banks were owned and operated by <a href="/wiki/Shanxi_merchants" title="Shanxi merchants">merchants</a> from the province of <a href="/wiki/Shanxi" title="Shanxi">Shanxi</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Social_Sciences_1992_pp._36-39-40">[40]</a> meanwhile foreigners in China called these institutions "native banks" to describe both the Shanxi banks and large <a href="/wiki/Money_lender" class="mw-redirect" title="Money lender">money lenders</a> whose businesses had accumulated a sufficient of capital to make loans) were greatly expanded to accommodate this demand. The principal function of the Shanxi banks under normal circumstances was that to send currency to more distant places in payment for traded <a href="/wiki/Goods_and_services" title="Goods and services">goods and services</a>.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockSilverTaelNotes-26">[26]</a> For this service the remittance banks charged a fee which ranged from 2% to 6%. During the usual course of business, these banks also held Qing Chinese government funds for disbursement. As the Shanxi banks were strongly represented in the north of China, the Chinese government saw it as only natural that these banks would be chosen to disburse the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes through their services.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> The Shanxi banks were often active in the assigned <a href="/wiki/Treaty_ports" title="Treaty ports">treaty ports</a> cultivating the business of both Chinese merchants and foreigner traders alike. The Shanxi banks tended to be very competitive in their nature and cooperated extensively with other branches of banking corporations within their own sphere, they would often send crucial banking-related news to member banks by <a href="/wiki/Carrier_pigeon" class="mw-redirect" title="Carrier pigeon">carrier pigeon</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockSilverTaelNotes-26">[26]</a> Prior to the introduction of the <a href="/wiki/Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Railroad">railroad</a> to China, the Chinese economy relied heavily on Shanxi banks to finance inter-city commerce. In <a href="/wiki/Northern_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern China">Northern China</a> the preferred method of land transportation was the <a href="/wiki/Camel" title="Camel">camel</a> due to the fact that these animals could cope with the conditions of Northern China while many other animals couldn't, and the Shanxi banks employed camels in the north for transportation.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockSilverTaelNotes-26">[26]</a> The Shanxi banks and other Chinese banking companies were essential in connecting the various monetary systems that circulated in China at the time by facilitating interregional trade and commerce, providing credit for merchants, and cooperating in times of crisis. It was customary for example for the Shanghai banks to make advances to <a href="/wiki/Junk_(ship)" title="Junk (ship)">junk</a> owners who were engaged in the trade of carrying tribute rice to the north, holding their vessels as collateral. These junks after having unloaded their rice in the port, would return with shipments of oil, peas, bean cakes, and other products for trade.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockSilverTaelNotes-26">[26]</a> In the year 1858, a crisis occurred when the Shanghai banks would let the merchants borrow money to pay for the import of various foreign products and merchandise with the expectation that the tribute junks would return with oil and foodstuffs with a value that would be sufficient to offset the advance paid by the Shanghai banks. However, at this time the <a href="/wiki/Second_Opium_War" title="Second Opium War">Second Opium War</a> was being fought with the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom</a> and <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> in the northern parts of China.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockSilverTaelNotes-26">[26]</a> The tribute junks were sunk on their voyage back to Shanghai. Had bullion in precious metals such as gold and silver have been demanded immediately to cover the loss that had occurred during this crisis, then the Shanghai banks would have gone bankrupt. Being allied with the Shanxi group, the local Shanghai banks were given time by the holders of the notes to obtain the necessary funds from other Chinese cities and the crisis which could have severely affected the <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Shanghai" class="mw-redirect" title="Economy of Shanghai">economy of Shanghai</a> negatively was thereby averted.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockSilverTaelNotes-26">[26]</a> The Taiping Rebellion had caused the government of the Qing dynasty to fall into an extreme debt spiral which forced it to reconsider introducing paper money as a medium for exchange.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> This was advertised by the imperial government as a necessary evil because of a shortage of bronze which meant that the production of cash coinage had to be heavily scaled down. The pauperised Chinese public was for centuries uncompromisingly minded against the idea of paper money emissions in any way, shape, or form and would not accept it for any reason.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Half a century earlier in the year 1814, when <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cai_Zhiding&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cai Zhiding (page does not exist)">Cai Zhiding</a> (蔡之定, Ts'ai Chih-Ting), who was a high official in the Ministry of State, petitioned to the court of the <a href="/wiki/Jiaqing_Emperor" title="Jiaqing Emperor">Jiaqing Emperor</a> advocating the resumption of a paper money currency, this request was denied. Cai was later severely rebuked in the Jiaqing Emperor's memorial in which he pointed out that neither the Chinese government nor any individuals in the past had experienced benefits from the circulation of a paper money.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> The Jiaqing Emperor was not fully without justification in asserting his stance against paper currency, as the era Ming banknotes from their introduction had been inconvertible into metal currencies. With no government backing into any other forms of currency these banknotes were swiftly depreciated. While this may seem only logical today the Chinese had to learn this lesson the hard way.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The first radical change to the Chinese monetary system involved the authorization and introduction of "big cash coins" (大錢 - known today as multiple cash coins).<a href="#cite_note-CambridgeInflation-30">[30]</a> This measurement was seen as one of the only remaining options left, and simultaneously the Qing government decided to reintroduce paper currency.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> Xianfeng's paper money consisted of two types of paper bank notes, the first of which was denominated in qian, or copper cash; and the second type, in silver taels.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Introduction_of_the_Great_Qing_Treasure_Note">Introduction of the Great Qing Treasure Note</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Introduction of the Great Qing Treasure Note">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Hubu_Guanpiao#Introduction_and_circulation" title="Hubu Guanpiao">Hubu Guanpiao § Introduction and circulation</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Inner_Mongolia_Museum_bronze_printing_plate_for_banknote.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Inner_Mongolia_Museum_bronze_printing_plate_for_banknote.jpg/220px-Inner_Mongolia_Museum_bronze_printing_plate_for_banknote.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="341" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Inner_Mongolia_Museum_bronze_printing_plate_for_banknote.jpg/330px-Inner_Mongolia_Museum_bronze_printing_plate_for_banknote.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Inner_Mongolia_Museum_bronze_printing_plate_for_banknote.jpg/440px-Inner_Mongolia_Museum_bronze_printing_plate_for_banknote.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2657" data-file-height="4121" /></a><figcaption>A printing plate for the Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes in the collection of the <a href="/wiki/Inner_Mongolia_Museum" title="Inner Mongolia Museum">Inner Mongolia Museum</a>.</figcaption></figure> As the general population of the Qing dynasty at the time was living in extreme poverty, the commodity of copper was the basis of the Chinese monetary system as the majority of the Chinese people had very little economic power and could barely survive off of their income, by contrast silver was the preferred currency of the upper class society including merchants, traders, and aristocrats.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Millions of Chinese peasants for millennia knew of no other medium of exchange than <a href="/wiki/Cash_(Chinese_coin)" title="Cash (Chinese coin)">copper-alloy cash coins</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> All daily purchases of the common people were counted in cash coins. The reintroduction of paper money was specifically denominated in copper-alloy cash coins to allow it to be trusted by the general Chinese populace, comparatively the <a href="/wiki/Da_Ming_Baochao" class="mw-redirect" title="Da Ming Baochao">paper money used by the Ming dynasty</a> could not be converted into coinages of any kind which proved to be an extremely calamitous decision as it had effectively discouraged the reintroduction of paper money in China up until this point.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> However, the Taiping Rebellion brought both extensive devastation and high defense costs to the point that within 3 years the Xianfeng administration felt forced to re-adopt paper currency.<a href="#cite_note-HoreshQing-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> At the same time, mints across China started releasing a substantial amount of new <a href="/w/index.php?title=Xianfeng_coinage&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Xianfeng coinage (page does not exist)">Daqian coins</a>, whose nominal value vastly exceeded their intrinsic copper value. Both currencies would prove to become exceedingly inflationary as time passed by, this disrupted the market exchange rate of copper to silver and lead to unrest among the people.<a href="#cite_note-HoreshQing-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsDebinMa-49">[49]</a> While military expenses were the main reason the government of the Qing dynasty return to issuing banknotes again after four hundred years without using them.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> There were also other arguments in favour of a paper currency; the earlier advantages of adopting paper currencies had not been entirely forgotten by the Chinese people. The people supporting the reintroduction of <a href="/wiki/Fiat_money" title="Fiat money">fiat money</a> claimed that it could be produced at minimal cost and could circulate widely within the Chinese empire. Being lightweight, paper money could be carried around my traders and officials with ease and concealed on one's person as opposed to strings of cash coins which were always visible and a low-effort target for potential robbers.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Another argument in favour was that banknotes were not dividable into various grades of purity like is customary for precious metals like silver. Nor does paper money have to be weighed whenever it is used in a monetary transaction.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Neither can banknotes be clipped by dishonest money lenders as was so often the case with silver coins and sycees.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The strongest arguments in favour of the use of paper held over hard forms of currency from the government's perspective were twofold.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The first reason was that if paper took the place of copper and copper-alloys would stop used in casting cash coins, the copper saved could be used in the production of weapons for the imperial Chinese and provincial armies.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The second reason was that in the case replacing of silver coinages, if the mercantile (merchants) and commercial (business owners) classes could be brought to the persuasion to accept paper banknotes in lieu of silver, then the silver saved could be stored up in the government coffers.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Eventually, the arguments for reintroduction of paper money prevailed and the Great Qing Treasure Note and Great Qing Hubu Guanpiao were introduced in the year Xianfeng 3 (1853).<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The banknotes denominated in copper-alloy cash coins and the banknotes denominated in taels of silver were introduced simultaneously to the Chinese market by the government.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Unlike the earlier <a href="/wiki/Great_Ming_Treasure_Note" title="Great Ming Treasure Note">Great Ming Treasure Note</a> banknotes these paper notes were to be backed by the government and were supposed to be fully convertible on demand. Banknotes denominated in copper-alloy cash coins were referred to as Chaopiao (鈔票, or "precious notes") and Qianpiao (錢票, or "cash notes", which was a reference to their (initial) convertibility into strings of copper-alloy cash coins).<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> In the year Xianfeng 3 (1853) the Ministry of Revenue also gave authorisation to the local provincial governments of China to directly issue banknotes denominated in copper-alloy cash coins and silver taels, these banknotes bore its official seal and were valid throughout the empire.<a href="#cite_note-HoreshQing-2">[2]</a> The Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes rather than being smoothly introduced to the local markets were "dumped" (Lanfa) on purveyors of <a href="/wiki/Goods_and_services" title="Goods and services">goods and services</a> to the bureaucracy of the Qing government and were not as easily accepted back in tax payments to the government by these same purveyors.<a href="#cite_note-HoreshQing-2">[2]</a> Unlike the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes, the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes were initially well received by the Chinese market.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> While government reports indicate that the Great Qing Treasure Note would often be refused by private business owners and shops, they were fairly easily exchanged for the banknotes issued by the official banks.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> Because shops often refused them, the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes were denominated in wén, instead of metropolitan cash (京錢, Jingqian), the currency unit commonly used on private banknotes in Beijing.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> The Great Qing Treasure Note could also be quite easily purchased from the official banks at a discount and be used to pay for taxes and the purchase of titles.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> As the government of the Qing dynasty rather quickly realised that the banknotes denominated in copper-alloy cash coins were more popular than those denominated in silver, because of the relatively high nominal value of the latter, the imperial government began promoting the Great Qing Treasure Note more.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> In the year 1855 the government ramped up the production of cash notes and established 5 more Yu Group government banks for their exchange.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> The Yu banks had insufficient reserves to actually exchange the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes for real copper, so they exchanged them for their own banknotes.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> Because the Yu banks had seriously over-issued their own banknotes compared to their very limited reserves, they would all close their doors in the year 1857.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> The series from the third year of Xianfeng (1853) and successive issues of copper-alloy cash notes were issued in the denominations of 500 <a href="/wiki/Chinese_cash_(currency_unit)" title="Chinese cash (currency unit)">wén</a>, 1000 wén, 1500 wén, and 2000 wén.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Later as severe depreciation occurred within the new currency system which was brought on by inflation series higher denomination banknotes were issued. These included the denominations of 5,000 wén, 10,000 wén, 50,000 wén , and 100,000 wén which were issued from the year Xianfeng 6 until Xianfeng 9.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> During this period 9 government banks in Beijing (of which 4 were newly established institutions) started issuing another type of cash note known as the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Guanhao_Qianpiao&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guanhao Qianpiao (page does not exist)">Guanhao Qianpiao</a> (官號錢票), these cash notes were backed by reserved kept in Daqian rather than standard cash coins. The Guanhao Qianpiao were modeled after privately produced banknotes known as the Sihao Qianpiao (私號錢票), these private cash notes would also continue to circulate alongside the new currencies.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKing1965159-54">[54]</a> Both the Guanhao Qianpiao and Sihao Qianpiao were based on the Jingqian accounting unit of cash coins as was used in Beijing, this meant that for example of one were to exchange 15,000 wén worth of Guanhao Qianpiao or Sihao Qianpiao cash notes in the year 1861 that person would only receive 7500 wén worth of physical coins (or 750 cash coins of 10 wén to be more precise). This practice was asymmetrical as government documents noted a string of cash coins as 1000 wén while paying out only 500 wén for these cash notes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKing1965159-54">[54]</a> The Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes were supposed to enjoy circulation in all territories of the Qing dynasty. In order to facilitate this widespread adoption of the new paper currency the Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes were issued to the general public through semi-official banks known as the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yu_bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yu bank (page does not exist)">Yu banks</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ch%27ien_bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ch'ien bank (page does not exist)">Ch'ien banks</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=T%27ien_bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="T'ien bank (page does not exist)">T'ien bank</a> groups, these semi-official banks served as the fiscal agents of the Ministry of Revenue.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-Social_Sciences_1992_pp._36-39-40">[40]</a> In reality, however, these banking groups were both independent from the Chinese government and from each other and weren't under any form of imperial government supervision. There were 5 "Yu Banks" which were already existing Chinese private banks, while the Ch'ien and T'ien banks were large cash shops which received a government license to distribute the new paper currency.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The T'ien shops also fulfilled the purpose of being publicly funded pawnshops, they dealt in both pawned items and deposits. It is important to note that none of these institutions would survive the inflation, drowning in an ever-increasing sea of Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> By the year Xianfeng 11 (1861) these institutions had all closed as they went bankrupt. The fall of the T'ien shops was quickened by Chinese peasants who, with the inflation affecting the paper money running rampant, opted to speedily redeem their pawned items with the depreciated Great Qing Treasure Note. This run on the T'ien shops had practically doomed the Chinese pawnshop business overnight.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> As the Great Qing Treasure Note were intended to be used as a form of payment throughout the Manchu Empire, the government found it a necessity to try to bring them into circulation in the provinces by using the Yu, Ch'ien, and T'ien banking corporations.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The entire process was spread over a biannual period, this was done because of the chaotic nature of China in the wake of this massive civil war.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> In the capital city of <a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a> the issuance of Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes had exceeded over 15,000,000 <a href="/wiki/String_of_cash_coins_(currency_unit)" title="String of cash coins (currency unit)">strings of cash coins</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Since local provincial officials tended to display a complete disregard and disdain for the idea of record keeping, no statistics regarding the issue of Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes outside of Beijing has ever come to light. <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> numismatist <a href="/w/index.php?title=John_E._Sandrock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John E. Sandrock (page does not exist)">John E. Sandrock</a> speculates that these issues must have been comparable in number to, or greatly exceeded the number of cash coin-based banknotes issued in Beijing.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> In the provinces the central government tended to distribute Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes into circulation by using both the civil service and the military.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The salaries of civil servants and soldiers were partially paid in paper money, and by law, all cash shops and banks were required to accept the Great Qing Treasure Note copper notes in lieu of actual cash coins. Meanwhile, the central government itself allowed for the Chinese people to pay a part of their taxes in banknotes. However, the ability of the imperial Chinese government to try and force the Great Qing Treasure Note to circulate in the provinces was way more limited than its ability to do so in Beijing.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes and Hubu Guanpiao tael notes weren't the only solutions the Chinese government offered to fix its financial crisis, but the actual implementation of these solutions varied greatly from province-to-province.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> Scholarly studies surrounding the effects around the introduction of these many new types of monies and what effect they had all played into the new monetary system, however, while the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes and Hubu Guanpiao tael notes weren't actually convertible into hard currency they had a fixed rate to each other and did circulate throughout the Machu Empire.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeng_Zeyi_(彭澤益)198388-56">[56]</a> The central government of the Qing dynasty became increasingly impatient with the slow adoption of the new paper currency in the provinces, in 1854 the Ministry of Revenue sent out a memorial to all provincial governors and governors-general to speed up the introduction and adoption processes.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote centered" style="width:50%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> "The Board of Revenue has already memorialized to order each province to open an official cash office and issue official notes, to increase the casting of copper and iron cash and the various denominations of big cash. Upon receipt of this memorial WE thereupon issued an edict fully authorizing this. Because there is a shortage of funds, the currency system depends entirely on the circulation of standard cash was well as other forms of money without obstruction, so that the money supply will be sufficient for the People's livelihood in difficult times. A long time has passed and WE have only received memorials from the governors general and governors of Fujian, Shaanxi, and Shanxi to state that they have acted in accordance with the edict. As for the rest of the provinces, they have by no means as yet done so. Those governors-general and governors, if they had with full devotion managed their affairs, what need would there be for a year's delay? Are not the regulations settled? Fujian is well known to be a barren place and yet the regulations are already in effect there. Even if the situation is not the same in each province, it cannot be so difficult to establish the law and arrange these affairs. In general, delinquent local officials fear difficulties and live in improper ease, idle and negligent, procrastinating. They are really to be bitterly hated. LET each province's governor-general, governor and military commander, and the governor of the imperial prefecture take official notice of the original memorial of the Board of Revenue and take part with their subordinates, deliberating over the local circumstances, and then quickly establish an official currency office and also devise means to raise funds to open mints to increase the casting so that the legal cash and cash notes, the one supplementing the other, are issued. At the same time deliberate on the rules and regulations and memorialize on what is being done." </blockquote> <cite class="left-aligned" style="">- Ministry of Revenue (translated by John E. Sandrock).<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a></cite> </div> Despite the memorial issued by the Ministry of Revenue, it is likely that local government officials were very much aware of how disruptive this monetary policy was and would lead to inflation. To many local government officials, the real issue at hand was actually with how much <a href="/wiki/Gaming_the_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaming the system">gaming the system</a> they were able to get away with.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes were convertible into Daqian cash coins at times, and while these multi-denominational cash coins were meant to circulate all over the Qing dynasty there isn't much evidence supporting that they also circulated in Beijing. Much of the central government's economic policies surrounded around making this new monetary system work and the practice of office selling would play a paramount role in this as the government would continue to accept both Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes and Daqian cash coins in this endeavour.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a><a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> Throughout the year Xianfeng 4 (1854) the imperial Chinese government attempted to find a solution to the fact that the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes weren't being readily accepted on the market, which they finally found around the end of the year when a group of private merchants would offer the ability to make the government-issued cash notes convertible into privately produced banknotes which were also denominated in cash coins. 5 newly founded banks which were semi-private companies, known by the first syllable of their names as "Yu banks" (宇) received iron Daqian from the government's Iron Cash Bureau (鐵錢局). These banks started issuing their own banknotes. The amount of Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes which could be exchanged for banknotes issued by these Yu banks was dependent on lot (掣字) which was further divided into validated Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes known as "Sichao" (實鈔) and non-validated Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes known as "Kongchao" (空鈔). The Yu Banks would sometimes add a <a href="/wiki/Banknote_seal_(China)" title="Banknote seal (China)">seal (or "chop")</a> to validated Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes (which would increase their <a href="/wiki/Market_value" title="Market value">market value</a> as they would be authenticated), though usually these would be exchanged for Yu Bank cash notes after which the Yu Banks would return these validated cash notes to the Ministry of Revenue and were brought back into general circulation in the form of military salaries. This procedure helped the soldiers of the banner armies, but would come at the expense of the convertibility of Hubu Guanpiao tael notes into Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes, which was suspended in order to protect the Great Qing Treasure Note series from being affected by further depreciation.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> Despite both denying silver notes and issuing their own cash notes in extreme excess of their actual reserves of cash coins, free Yu banks were still undercapitalised.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> When the imperial Qing government allocated funds to the provinces, they were normally paid in either silver bullion and Hubu Guanpiao tael notes.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> In addition, Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes were printed specifically for the provinces, and imperial government made sure that these provincial Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes could not be used in the capital city;<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> they would not be accepted in the official banks or in the payment of taxes.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> As the Qing dynasty starting regaining territory in the areas held by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they immediately started issuing Great Qing Treasure Note and Hubu Guanpiao banknotes in these places.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> These issues were controlled using two different ideogram systems for the indexes and prefixes, the Chinese characters utilised by these systems were based on the <a href="/wiki/Thousand_Character_Classic" title="Thousand Character Classic">Thousand Character Classic</a> (千字文, Qiānzì Wén).<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The prefixed Chinese character (which would appear in the series block preceding the actual serial number on each banknote) was actually one of these thousand classical ideograms, it is known that the first 320 characters from this series were reserved for the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Peking_Metropolitan_District&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peking Metropolitan District (page does not exist)">Peking Metropolitan District</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> By contrast, early Hubu Guanpiao tael notes of the Xianfeng era, which were issued through the Peking Metropolitan District, the provincial treasuries of China, and the Chinese military commissaries, used a different prefix character system, this system was based upon the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Five_Confucian_Virtues&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Five Confucian Virtues (page does not exist)">Five Confucian Virtues</a> as opposed to the thousand character classic-based system of the Great Qing Treasure Note.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> In the markets of Beijing the new Xianfeng banknotes could not be used, so as people could not purchase any actual goods with them in the capital market many Bannermen lost a large part of their disposable income because of this inability to actually purchase things with their salary.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> The Shanxi and privately owned banks and the new banking corporations which had been established by the Chinese imperial government to be representative of the Chinese provincial treasuries were also assigned blocks of Chinese characters, which were to be placed in the prefix block on each banknote they would issue, thereby making it easy to identify every Great Qing Treasure Note banknote to a specific place where the paper note was issued.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Inflation">Inflation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Inflation">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Hubu_Guanpiao#Inflation_and_depreciation" title="Hubu Guanpiao">Hubu Guanpiao § Inflation and depreciation</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:400_W%C3%A9n_-_Fukien_Yung_Feng_Kuan_Chu_(Hsien-Feng_Year_7_-1857).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/400_W%C3%A9n_-_Fukien_Yung_Feng_Kuan_Chu_%28Hsien-Feng_Year_7_-1857%29.jpg/220px-400_W%C3%A9n_-_Fukien_Yung_Feng_Kuan_Chu_%28Hsien-Feng_Year_7_-1857%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/400_W%C3%A9n_-_Fukien_Yung_Feng_Kuan_Chu_%28Hsien-Feng_Year_7_-1857%29.jpg/330px-400_W%C3%A9n_-_Fukien_Yung_Feng_Kuan_Chu_%28Hsien-Feng_Year_7_-1857%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/400_W%C3%A9n_-_Fukien_Yung_Feng_Kuan_Chu_%28Hsien-Feng_Year_7_-1857%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="428" data-file-height="442" /></a><figcaption>A privately produced banknote from <a href="/wiki/Fujian" title="Fujian">Fujian</a> of 400 <a href="/wiki/Chinese_cash_(currency_unit)" title="Chinese cash (currency unit)">wén</a> issued in the year <a href="/wiki/Xianfeng_Emperor" title="Xianfeng Emperor">Xianfeng</a> 7 (1857), in this year the Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes were worth only half of their nominal value when exchanged with these private banknotes.</figcaption></figure> Both the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes and Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes did not enjoy market preference because of their high nominal value:<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> the lowest denomination Great Qing Treasure Note cash note had a nominal value of 500 wén, while the daily income in the period of 1853 to 1860 for an unskilled Chinese labourer was approximately 93 to 255 metropolitan cash (Jingqian).<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> At this point in time it became clear that physical metal supplies would not reach the capital of Beijing, the preferred substitute turned out to be banknotes.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Government officials were very much aware that the issuing of banknotes had to happen within very strict limits because the increases to the supply of metal currencies needed to be matched or the new currency would face the same levels of inflation has had happened several times before in the <a href="/wiki/History_of_China" title="History of China">history of China</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Despite knowing all the risks and the predicted <a href="/wiki/Hyperinflation" title="Hyperinflation">hyperinflation</a> paired with many examples of historical precedent, the central government decided to pursue issuing more banknotes than they were able to back up because of the pressing matters of the Taiping Rebellion.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> In reality, there was no other means that the government of the Qing dynasty would be able to pay for the war and the inflation was a calculated risk deemed worth it.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> In the city of Beijing the parity between wén cash coins and the Great Qing Treasure Note was maintained, but at the same time the entirety of the Jingqian system would become deprecated in relation to the <a href="/wiki/Zhiqian" title="Zhiqian">Zhiqian</a> system and silver prices. Both 10 wén cash coins and Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes were heavily discounted when traded with privately issued banknotes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKing1965162.-68">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeng_Zeyi_(彭澤益)1983100–101-69">[69]</a> Around the same time the price of silver declined throughout China, by the year Xianfeng 6 (1856) it had declined to 50% its value of what it was in Xianfeng 2 (1852), the exchange rate between Jingqian and silver had increased by 192% and would go up to 300% only two years later.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> This was however, only reflected on the paper money market for private cash notes as government-issued cash notes continued to lose their value.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeng_Zeyi_(彭澤益)1983106–107-71">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZhang1970234-72">[72]</a> In the provinces of <a href="/wiki/Zhili" title="Zhili">Zhili</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shanxi" title="Shanxi">Shanxi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henan" title="Henan">Henan</a>, and the region of <a href="/wiki/Manchuria" title="Manchuria">Manchuria</a> (<a href="/wiki/Jilin" title="Jilin">Jilin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liaoning" title="Liaoning">Fengtian</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Heilongjiang" title="Heilongjiang">Heilongjiang</a>) in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern China">north of China</a> the circulation of the Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes was extensive, meanwhile these banknotes also enjoyed circulation in <a href="/wiki/Central_China" title="Central China">Central China</a> where they vacillated with the spoils and fortunes of the war.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes tended not to circulate much in <a href="/wiki/Southern_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern China">Southern China</a> which (with the notable exception of <a href="/wiki/Fujian" title="Fujian">Fujian</a>) was a stronghold of the <a href="/wiki/Taiping_Heavenly_Kingdom" title="Taiping Heavenly Kingdom">Taiping Heavenly Kingdom</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The local authorities of the city of <a href="/wiki/Fuzhou" title="Fuzhou">Fuzhou</a>, Fujian also issued banknotes denominated in cash coins to the market, their reason was the fact that there was a severe lack of cash coins circulating in the market at that time and that these banknotes would help alleviate this scarcity.<a href="#cite_note-HoreshQing-2">[2]</a> The Fuzhou government often opted to pay using heavily debased cash coins, this happened to the extent that the copper reserves which backed this issue up had lost much of its value, which compounded inflationary pressures and justified the longstanding mistrust of paper money that the Chinese public had for the medium.<a href="#cite_note-HoreshQing-2">[2]</a> Initially, the Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes were able to be redeemed through the local Yu, Ch'ien and T'ien banks in a proportion of Zhiqian (制錢, "standard cash coins"), <a href="/wiki/Daqian" title="Daqian">Daqian</a> (大錢, "big cash"), silver, or the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes as was officially set by government regulation.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> As an example Manchu bannermen were to be paid in 8 parts ordinary cash coins to 2 parts large denomination cash coins, while members of the imperial household received 6 strings (串, chuàn) of standard cash coins for each 10 strings which were disbursed. Comparatively, government contractors and private merchants tended to receive more multi-denomination cash coins over standard cash coins due to their lower position.<a href="#cite_note-DebinMaLSERO-73">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Under inflationary pressure the Chinese government wasn't able to maintain parity for its currencies.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> By the year Xianfeng 5 (1855) the majority of the high denomination cash coins were abolished because it was both being deprecated at a rapid paste and there was an epidemic of counterfeiting.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> At this point the higher denomination which still continued to be produced and circulate was the 10 wén cash coin, though it was only worth 70% of its nominal value on the market.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> During this period both the Great Qing Treasure Note and Hubu Guanpiao banknotes were worth only 50% their nominal value.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Privately produced cash notes around the same time were fixed to the 10 wén Daqian and lost 60% of their value between the years 1852 and 1856.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Both government issued banknotes and Yu Bank issued banknotes were only valued half that of privately issued banknotes in 1856.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeng_Zeyi_(彭澤益)1983104–107.-74">[74]</a><a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> The reserves that the government of the Qing dynasty had set aside for those who would redeem the Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes turned out to be too low to meet the demand.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> During some audits conducted by the Ministry of Revenue their turned out to be major irregularities with the reserves held by the private and provincial note issuing banks.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Eventually, the Chinese government would abandon any policy other than one of keeping their banknotes in general circulation by forcing them on the Chinese population under a continued threat of punishments and penalties and also by making their redemption by its holders as difficult as possible.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The complete crash of the new currency systems occurred during the winter of Xianfeng 6 (1856) all the way into Xianfeng 7 (1857). The iron 10 wén cash coin drastically declined in its value, one of the reasons for this was the fact that it was being counterfeited on a large scale.<a href="#cite_note-Brill2015-25">[25]</a> At this time both peasants and merchants from the province of Zhili stopped accepting the coin as a form of payment. After in the spring of Xianfeng 7 (1857) the convertibility of Hubu Guanpiao tael notes into Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes was partly restored by the lot method at the Yu banks.<a href="#cite_note-Brill2015-25">[25]</a> The Ministry of Revenue had attempted to stop the large scale counterfeiting and to force the provincial governments of China to start accepting both iron and copper-alloy Daqian cash coins and Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes for tax payments, but quickly abandoned proposing iron Daqian cash coins and settled on a cash coin system of iron 1 wén coins and copper-alloy 10 wén coins, this system would prevail until the year Xianfeng 10 (1860).<a href="#cite_note-Brill2015-25">[25]</a> Because of this the standard copper-alloy cash coins completely disappeared from the Chinese market while all standard prices kept using them as a base unit of account leading to a price increase of 500% when paying with Daqian cash coins and Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes.<a href="#cite_note-Brill2015-25">[25]</a> This had an immediate negative effect on the soldiers of the banner armies as the central government was forced to pay the soldiers in grain to prevent a <a href="/wiki/Famine" title="Famine">famine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Brill2015-25">[25]</a> The collapse of the iron Daqian cash coins had an immediate effect on the Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes as large denomination iron cash coins served as the reserve of the cash notes issued by the Yu banks, which in turn handled the exchange of the Great Qing Treasure Note series. This resulted in the cash notes issued by the Yu banks to become quickly depreciated and by extend the Great Qing Treasure Note. The Yu banks went bankrupt and were forced to close their doors, this failure led to privately produced banknotes which were valued 4 times as much as the government-issued banknotes on the market further ushering in a decline for the Great Qing Treasure Note.<a href="#cite_note-Brill2015-25">[25]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/Autumn" title="Autumn">autumn</a> of the year Xianfeng 7 (1857), a number of commercial banks were tasked with handling the exchange of the Great Qing Treasure Note and Hubu Guanpiao, this proved to be an unsuccessful endeavour so in the year Xianfeng 8 (1858) 4 of the 5 Yu banks were reopened under direct management by the Chinese government. The Yu banks would continue to exchange Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes into other cash notes, this time the exchanged cash notes weren't Yu bank cash notes but cash notes issued by the 9 remaining government banks.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeng_Zeyi_(彭澤益)198394–95-76">[76]</a> The lot validation system would continue until the year Xianfeng 10 (1860), it would be abolished due to the cessation of production of new government-issued banknotes. At the time when the validation system was abolished only ⅓ of all Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes and 20% of all Hubu Guanpiao tael notes emitted in Beijing had actually been validated.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKing1965162–163-77">[77]</a> Due to their inability to be redeemed the Great Qing Treasure Note became widely depreciated, while it is common for 1000 wén banknotes from the year Xianfeng 3 (1853) to have so many stamps of endorsements that there was no more space for any more chops, a banknote of the same domination from the year Xianfeng 9 (1859) would have few if any endorsements.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The value of the government-issued paper money was so depreciated by the year Xianfeng 10 (1860) that provincial issued were curtailed by this time.<a href="#cite_note-HoreshQing-2">[2]</a> By Xianfeng 10 (1860) the rate between government-mandated cash notes and privately produced cash notes had become stable a rate of 2:1, this only increased to 3.5:1 before the monetary crash of 1861.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZhang1970234–235-79">[79]</a> In March 1860, the Ministry of Revenue proposed to the Xianfeng Emperor to stop issuing both the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes and Hubu Guanpiao tael notes and to cease validating old ones.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> By the year Xianfeng 11 (1861) the Great Qing Treasure Note experienced such severe deprecation that people auctioned it off for only 3% of their nominal value. At this time these banknotes would not be (or could not be) redeemed by the note issuing banks.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> In July of that year, it became common for labourers to reject them as their salary. In this year a <a href="/wiki/Run_on_the_bank" class="mw-redirect" title="Run on the bank">run on the banks</a> occurred.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> By September these banknotes ceased circulating in China altogether.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> While certain individuals such as government officials and foreigners would get the exact amounts of cash coins as stipulated on the banknotes, the average Chinese was forced into a highly competitive bidding market to receive any metal coinage.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> In these auctions, the person who was willing to exchange the largest number of paper banknotes for a certain number of high denomination cash coins would win.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The repudiation of these Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes by the official banks and semi-official issuers such as private banks and pawnshops would condemn hordes of hardworking Chinese peasants to a life of never-ending impoverishment and misery.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The amount of endorsements on the reverse side of Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes also started to gradually decrease as the years passed by, while banknotes issued in years Xianfeng 3 and Xianfeng 4 were extensively endorsed indicating that widespread circulation, the banknotes issued in the years Xianfeng 5 and Xianfeng 6 often only contain a smaller number of endorsements on their backsides, but the banknotes issued in the years Xianfeng 7, Xianfeng 8, and Xianfeng 9 oftentimes lack any endorsements whatsoever indicating that in many cases these banknotes didn't circulate at all or weren't accepted by the general population including businesses and private banks anymore.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Both the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes and Hubu Guanpiao tael notes continued to be accepted in the practice of office selling and would continue to circulate in the provinces of China proper as non-interest bearing debentures until the years 1867–1868, when all government-issued banknotes were officially declared invalid.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> In a 1962 study <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yang_Duanliu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yang Duanliu (page does not exist)">Yang Duanliu</a> cited memorials which were written to the Xianfeng Emperor which attempted to show him that his order to the provinces to keep fifty percent of their reserves in silver was ignored by provincial authorities and that the actual ratio of reserves varied substantially across different provinces. Meanwhile, some Chinese provinces did not keep any silver reserves at all, while the province of <a href="/wiki/Henan" title="Henan">Henan</a> (a province very close to the capital city of Beijing) did not even accept the Hubu Guanpiao banknotes they themselves issued as a form of payment for provincial taxes. Yang claims that these inadequate reserve ratios and local insubordination to imperial government laws and edicts were to blame why by the year Qixiang 1 (1862) government banknotes had completely disappeared from circulation.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> <a href="/wiki/Jerome_Ch%27en" title="Jerome Ch'en">Jerome Ch'ên</a> meanwhile suggested that the Ministry of Revenue made the rampant inflation a lot worse by insisting that no more than half of individual tax remittance could be made with either Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes or Hubu Guanpiao tael notes with the remainder of the taxes being demanded in either cash coins or silver.<a href="#cite_note-Ch'ên1958-83">[83]</a> <a href="/wiki/Niv_Horesh" title="Niv Horesh">Niv Horesh</a> suggests that the reason the Qing dynasty suffered from hyperinflation during the reign of the Xianfeng Emperor was not only because the banknotes issued by the government at the time were inadequately backed up by <a href="/wiki/Hard_currency" title="Hard currency">hard currency</a>, but that the Xianfeng Emperor approved the issuance of heavily debased and ill-fated Daqian. Horesh blamed the 9,200,000 taels in war indemnities imposed on the Qing by foreign powers following the Opium Wars that were demanded from the Qing in March of the year 1850 as a strong motivation for the Xianfeng regime to start debasing its currency despite the fact that high denomination low intrinsic value cash coins have had a tainted reputation throughout Chinese history.<a href="#cite_note-HoreshQing-2">[2]</a> In December 1850 a way larger threat to the rule of the Qing appeared in the form of a major <a href="/wiki/Civil_war" title="Civil war">civil war</a> during the Taiping Rebellion meaning that the issuing of Daqian and paper currency were seen as a last-ditch emergency measure which the government had to undertake for its continued rule.<a href="#cite_note-HoreshQing-2">[2]</a> According to Ch'ên many of the court officials that voiced their support for using banknotes were also in favour of issuing the Daqian and even iron cash coins as a means to alleviate the fiscal crisis as well as the general shortage of copper cash coins that were caused by the Taiping rebels expanding through <a href="/wiki/Southeast_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Southeast China">Southeast China</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Ch'ên1958-83">[83]</a> Following the fall of the Yu banks, the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes were still issued after the year 1857 and could be exchanged in other official banks (Qian and Tian Groups), but in reality they were rarely seen in the market.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a><a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> In the year 1859, Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes could no longer be used to pay taxes.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> In 1860, the central government suspended the issue of Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes (as well as the use of Hubu Guanpiao tael notes), and ordered the gradual withdrawal of the existing paper from the market.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> The government of the Qing dynasty's paper notes helped relieve the fiscal deficit by acting as a sort of forced loan from government employees.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> Through the exchange service of official government banks and the certainty that government issued paper notes could be used for tax payments, government debts became a kind of tradable loan (at a discount).<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> With their limited number and limited use in the market, the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes are unlikely to have been a major cause of the inflation in the Chinese market that had occurred at the time.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> However, the default on these government issued paper notes, and the ensuing market panic that had occurred may have been one of its causes.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> Most Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes appearing on the market for collectors in the modern era tend to be these later issues with very few endorsements, these banknotes were introduced after the Great Qing Treasure Note series was already 90% deprecated.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Aftermath">edit</a>]</div> There was a gradual return to the bimetallic traditional currency system and by the year 1861 all new currencies of the Xianfeng era were given up, with the notable exception being the 10 <a href="/wiki/Chinese_cash_(currency_unit)" title="Chinese cash (currency unit)">wén</a> Daqian which continued to be produced until the abolition of cash coins themselves.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeng_Zeyi_(彭澤益)198388.-86">[86]</a> After the abolition of the Great Qing Treasure Note and the Hubu Guanpiao banknotes the government of the Qing dynasty did not produce any banknotes anymore for decades. The final phase of Qing banknote issuance lasted from 1897 right until the <a href="/wiki/Xinhai_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Xinhai Revolution">Xinhai Revolution</a> ousted the monarchy in 1912. These later issues were substantively different from the earlier two issues because, by then, banknotes had been imported from Western printers. These new banknotes were often horizontal-shaped in design which was novel in Chinese terms. Because of their horizontal designs and better security issues harder to forge by Chinese counterfeiters. The majority of these new banknotes were disbursed by semiofficial modern Chinese banks based on the models presented by Western and Japanese banks in China.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a><a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a><a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> The Ministry of Revenue established a <a href="/wiki/Central_bank" title="Central bank">central bank</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Da-Qing_Bank" title="Da-Qing Bank">Da-Qing Bank</a>, in 1905. this bank would issue the last government-backed banknotes of the Qing dynasty until it was overthrown.<a href="#cite_note-QingPaperMoney-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_banknotes_denominated_in_copper-alloy_cash_coins_issued_during_the_Xianfeng_era">List of banknotes denominated in copper-alloy cash coins issued during the Xianfeng era</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: List of banknotes denominated in copper-alloy cash coins issued during the Xianfeng era">edit</a>]</div> List of banknotes denominated in copper-alloy cash coins issued during the Xianfeng era:<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size: 100%"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4">Xianfeng cash notes (1853–1859) </th></tr> <tr> <th>Denomination</th> <th>Years of production</th> <th>Approximate size (in millimeters)</th> <th>Image </th></tr> <tr> <td>500 <a href="/wiki/Chinese_cash_(currency_unit)" title="Chinese cash (currency unit)">wén</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Xianfeng_Emperor" title="Xianfeng Emperor">Xianfeng</a> 3, Xianfeng 4, Xianfeng 5, Xianfeng 6, Xianfeng 7, Xianfeng 8</td> <td>130 x 232</td> <td><a href="/wiki/File:500_W%C3%A9n_(Cash)_-_D%C3%A0_Q%C4%ABng_B%C7%8Eo_Ch%C4%81o_(%E5%A4%A7%E6%B8%85%E5%AF%B6%E9%88%94)_Treasury_of_the_Great_Ch%27ing_(1856)_01.png" class="mw-file-description"><img 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/100.000_W%C3%A9n_%28Cash%29_-_D%C3%A0_Q%C4%ABng_B%C7%8Eo_Ch%C4%81o_%28%E5%A4%A7%E6%B8%85%E5%AF%B6%E9%88%94%29_Ministry_of_Interior_and_Finance%2C_Ch%27ing_Dynasty_%281857%29_01.jpg/150px-100.000_W%C3%A9n_%28Cash%29_-_D%C3%A0_Q%C4%ABng_B%C7%8Eo_Ch%C4%81o_%28%E5%A4%A7%E6%B8%85%E5%AF%B6%E9%88%94%29_Ministry_of_Interior_and_Finance%2C_Ch%27ing_Dynasty_%281857%29_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="303" data-file-height="600" /></a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Misattribution_in_English_language_sources">Misattribution in English language sources</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Misattribution in English language sources">edit</a>]</div> Strictly speaking, the Xianfeng era banknotes issued by the official banks did not fall under the monies issued by the Qing government.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> However, the status and function of official banks was intertwined with that of the Daqian, Great Qing Treasure Note, and Hubu Guanpiao, and the over-issue of banknotes by the official banks was probably the real reason for the Xianfeng inflation.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> Because the official banks were neither directly controlled by the Ministry of Revenue or supervised by them, and the fact that their operations were semi-commercial (as in they were operated by private merchants), few records of official banknotes exist today.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> In fact, it has not become uncommon for modern <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English language</a> literature on the subject to claim that the Great Qing Treasure Note were in fact issued by the official banks.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> In reality both the Hubu Guanpiao and the Great Qing Treasure Note were issued by the Ministry of Revenue, while official banknotes, which were also often denominated in copper-alloy cash coins, were distinct.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> In his book Money and Monetary Policy in China King confuses the Great Qing Treasure Note with the official banknotes.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> King mentions that the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes were the direct responsibility of the Ministry of Revenue while the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes were issued through the official banks which were the fiscal agents of the Ministry of Revenue.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> But, in fact, both the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes and Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes were issued by the Ministry of Revenue, and the official banks were tasked with and responsible for accepting the notes (mostly Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes) in exchange for <a href="/wiki/Daqian" title="Daqian">Daqian</a> or their own banknotes.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> According to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Xun_Yan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Xun Yan (page does not exist)">Xun Yan</a> of the <a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics and Political Science</a> it seems that King had mixed up Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes with the banknotes issued by the official banks, because of their close relationship.<a href="#cite_note-LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan-51">[51]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design,_security_features,_and_design_elements">Design, security features, and design elements</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Design, security features, and design elements">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Hubu_Guanpiao#Design,_security_features,_and_design_elements" title="Hubu Guanpiao">Hubu Guanpiao § Design, security features, and design elements</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Da-Qing_Baochao_(%E5%A4%A7%E6%B8%85%E5%AF%B6%E9%88%94)_design_elements_-_Ch%27ing_Dynasty_Copper_Cash-Note_-_John_E._Sandrock_04.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Da-Qing_Baochao_%28%E5%A4%A7%E6%B8%85%E5%AF%B6%E9%88%94%29_design_elements_-_Ch%27ing_Dynasty_Copper_Cash-Note_-_John_E._Sandrock_04.jpg/220px-Da-Qing_Baochao_%28%E5%A4%A7%E6%B8%85%E5%AF%B6%E9%88%94%29_design_elements_-_Ch%27ing_Dynasty_Copper_Cash-Note_-_John_E._Sandrock_04.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Da-Qing_Baochao_%28%E5%A4%A7%E6%B8%85%E5%AF%B6%E9%88%94%29_design_elements_-_Ch%27ing_Dynasty_Copper_Cash-Note_-_John_E._Sandrock_04.jpg/330px-Da-Qing_Baochao_%28%E5%A4%A7%E6%B8%85%E5%AF%B6%E9%88%94%29_design_elements_-_Ch%27ing_Dynasty_Copper_Cash-Note_-_John_E._Sandrock_04.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Da-Qing_Baochao_%28%E5%A4%A7%E6%B8%85%E5%AF%B6%E9%88%94%29_design_elements_-_Ch%27ing_Dynasty_Copper_Cash-Note_-_John_E._Sandrock_04.jpg/440px-Da-Qing_Baochao_%28%E5%A4%A7%E6%B8%85%E5%AF%B6%E9%88%94%29_design_elements_-_Ch%27ing_Dynasty_Copper_Cash-Note_-_John_E._Sandrock_04.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1851" data-file-height="1990" /></a><figcaption>The layout of the Great Qing Treasure Note</figcaption></figure> The handmade <a href="/wiki/Paper" title="Paper">paper</a> which was used to produce both the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes and Great Qing Hubu Guanpiao tael notes was sized, the paper itself may have been produced in <a href="/wiki/Northern_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern China">Northern China</a> or <a href="/wiki/Joseon_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseon dynasty">Korea</a>.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The paper can be described as being hard, thin, and a bit yellowish in colour, while the texture could be described as being lumpy. The design of the banknotes was uniform, this suggests that the imperial Chinese government would have probably distributed them to the provincial note-issuing banks and offices itself.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> numismatist <a href="/w/index.php?title=John_E._Sandrock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John E. Sandrock (page does not exist)">John E. Sandrock</a> examined the Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes produced during the years Xianfeng 7 (1857), Xianfeng 8 (1858), and Xianfeng 9 (1859) after which he concluded that the banknotes denominated in 1000 <a href="/wiki/Chinese_cash_(currency_unit)" title="Chinese cash (currency unit)">wén</a> and 2000 wén were printed in two varieties of paper. He noted that the Great Qing Hubu Guanpiao tael notes were made from a much heavier and thicker kind of paper which he also described as being softer to the touch of ones hands – almost blotter-like in quality. The paper used for these Great Qing Hubu Guanpiao tael notes is full of large, stringy fibers, which Sandrock thought was most probably made from <a href="/wiki/Bamboo" title="Bamboo">bamboo</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Some of the Great Qing Treasure Note cash coins with the denominations of 1000 wén and 2000 wén were made from the same type of paper as the Great Qing Hubu Guanpiao tael notes.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> John E. Sandrock speculates that because the larger denominations of 5,000 wén, 10,000 wén, 50,000 wén, and 100,000 wén were not authorised to be created until the years Xianfeng 6 (1856) and Xianfeng 7 (1857), that by the year Xianfeng 6 the imperial Chinese government the paper used to produce the cash notes may have run out or that the contract for it may have been canceled. When these larger denomination Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes were authorised, they must have been printed on whatever paper was available at the time for the Chinese government.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The Great Qing Treasure Note contained the following text at the bottom: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style=";"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <span lang="lzh" style="display:inline-block; font-size: 1em; writing-mode: vertical-rl; -webkit-writing-mode: vertical-rl; -o-writing-mode: vertical-rl; -ms-writing-mode: tb-rl;writing-mode: tb-rl; layout-flow: vertical-ideographic; letter-spacing:20%;vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 120%;">此鈔即代制 錢行用並准 按成交納地 丁錢糧一切 稅課捐項京 外各庫一概 收解每錢鈔 貳千文抵換 官票銀壹兩 Cǐ chāo jí dài zhì qián xíng yòng, bìng zhǔn àn chéngjiāo nà de dīng qiánliáng, yīqiè shuì kè juān xiàng, jīng wài gè kù yīgài shōu jiě, měi qián chāo èrqiān wén dǐ huàn guān piào yín yī liǎng. <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> </blockquote> </div> This text shows that the fixed conversion rate between Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes and silver taels was 2000 wén for 1 tael. Both the thick and thin versions of these banknotes have line <a href="/wiki/Watermark" title="Watermark">watermarks</a>, watermark lines found on the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes consisted of horizontal bars with thick, continuous lines that were spaced approximately 18 millimeters apart from each other, meanwhile, there were other watermarks which formed a grid pattern. These watermarks were not a good security feature as they were prone to be overlooked.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Many Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes had rather indistinct line watermarks, while these watermarks appeared more prominently in others. John E. Sanrock observed a rather particularly distinct example of Great Qing Treasure Note watermarks on a specimen of a 100,000 wén banknote. This particular note contains 7 heavy, vertical and 13 horizontal lines interspersed with some smaller horizontal lines between them.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The Chinese at the time manufactured ink from various plant substances which they mixed with coloured earths and soot. This resulted in a deep black ink which had both an excellent colour and strength and was of high quality. This was ink used to provide the variable data on notes, such as the date, the serial number, among others were all applied with a paintbrush. Today the ink which was applied to the Great Qing Treasure Note appears almost as fresh as the day that the characters were written down because of its high quality. The blue printing inks which was used in the block printing process was of similar quality and also appear very clearly today. Meanwhile, the vermilion ink which was used to impress the various authenticating seals (or chops) upon the banknotes also depict both a good colour and penetration of the paper.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Comparatively the inks which were used on the earlier Great Ming Treasure Note banknotes from the <a href="/wiki/Ming_dynasty" title="Ming dynasty">Ming dynasty</a>, for example, tended to dry out and would become brittle and flake off leaving often only traces in many cases.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> John E. Sandrock suspects that the wooden blocks from which the Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes were printed were most likely also carved in the location of where these cash notes were issued, since he noted that upon a close examination of a number of them, these banknotes reveal quite a number of prominent differences among them. He noted that in some cases that different <a href="/wiki/Chinese_characters" title="Chinese characters">Chinese characters</a> are used for conveying the same intended meaning, in other cases different systems of numbering were utilised depending on place of issue, and in others the physical dimensions of similar or the same ideograms (Chinese characters) differ between them.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Contained within 4 circles at the top of every banknote are the characters "鈔寶清大" (written from <a href="/wiki/Right_to_left" class="mw-redirect" title="Right to left">right to left</a>) printed in light blue ink. Meanwhile, the later seals and stamps placed by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Revenue_(imperial_China)" title="Ministry of Revenue (imperial China)">Ministry of Revenue</a> were in vermilion or orange and tended to be 57 x 57 millimeters in size. Beneath the top inscription there is a rectangular border, which serves as a frame, across the top of which there are two <a href="/wiki/Chinese_dragon" title="Chinese dragon">Chinese dragons</a> striving for a wish-granting pearl.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> The side frames depict clouds interrupted by circular medallions containing the Chinese characters "天下通行" (T'ien Hsia T'ung Hsing, "To circulate under the heavens")<a href="#cite_note-92">[a]</a> on the right and the characters "巧平出入" (Chun P'ing Ch'u Ju, "Payable at face value") on the left.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Except for the denomination of the Great Qing Treasure Note, which was carved into the block and was therefore printed into the design itself, all other variables on the paper such as block and serial numbers as well as the chops of minor officials, tended to be applied using black ink. At the upper left part of the Great Qing Treasure Note, the reign title of the <a href="/wiki/Xianfeng_Emperor" title="Xianfeng Emperor">Xianfeng Emperor</a> was printed with the year that the banknote was produced, on the other side the serial number could be seen.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> A common design on both copper-alloy cash coin Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes and silver tael Hubu Guanpiao banknotes, as well as many later issues of banknotes, was that of how the Chinese saw the universe, this revolved around the Chinese concept of earth (the ground), the seas, and the heavens (the skies).<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> This tradition and philosophy is expressed as a landscape showing a high mountain which is encircled by water, while above this mountain is a border containing the clouds and Chinese dragons. This symbolism to the Chinese conveyed the idea that the <a href="/wiki/Emperor_of_China" title="Emperor of China">Emperor of China</a>, as the <a href="/wiki/Son_of_Heaven" title="Son of Heaven">Son of Heaven</a>, was the rightful ruler of the entire universe.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> On the Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes specifically <a href="/wiki/Coral" title="Coral">coral</a> could be observed ascending from the water, coral is considered to be one of the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_mythology" title="Chinese mythology">mythological</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Seven_precious_jewels&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Seven precious jewels (page does not exist)">seven precious jewels</a>. Another common treasure depicted on these banknotes is the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wish-granting_pearl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wish-granting pearl (page does not exist)">wish-granting pearl</a> (or sometimes a fireball) being chased by two Chinese dragons. The presence of coral and the wish-granting pearl is meant to represent wealth.<a href="#cite_note-93">[92]</a><a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> As the Great Qing Treasure Note was associated with the <a href="/wiki/Lower_social_class" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower social class">lower class</a> peasantry it depicted only two Chinese dragons, while the Hubu Guanpiao, which was associated with the <a href="/wiki/Upper_class" title="Upper class">upper class</a>, contained four Chinese dragons.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> An important security feature of these banknotes were camel's hair brush strokes found at the right edges of the Great Qing Treasure Note. These black ink strokes were actually already made prior to the cutting of the notes from their tallies in an attempt to prevent <a href="/wiki/Counterfeit_currency" class="mw-redirect" title="Counterfeit currency">counterfeit currency</a> from being produced as it was the best-known security feature available at the time.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> These brush strokes would overlap with the counterfoil that remained in the tally kept by the issuing government or Nam official when the banknote was cut and later removed. As these brush strokes contained hundreds of very small hairlines which together formed random patterns, they were not dissimilar from individual human <a href="/wiki/Fingerprint" title="Fingerprint">fingerprints</a> since it was highly unlikely that any two followed the same patterns.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> These banknotes were testified to be genuine or false by comparing two halves and the serial number, the banknote could only be declared genuine if the patterns matched. John E. Sandrock has claimed to only have seen a single Great Qing Treasure Note which did not have this security feature.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> According to the American numismatist <a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrew_McFarland_Davis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrew McFarland Davis (page does not exist)">Andrew McFarland Davis</a> different Chinese characters tended to be used to convey the same meaning on different banknotes. For example, while some banknotes had the insulation that those who informed the government of counterfeiting practices would receive a reward, other banknotes included a line where it was suggested that to receive the reward you had to physically bring the counterfeiters in for arrest.<a href="#cite_note-94">[93]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Seals,_overprints,_and_endorsements">Seals, overprints, and endorsements</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Seals, overprints, and endorsements">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Hubu_Guanpiao#Seals,_overprints,_and_endorsements" title="Hubu Guanpiao">Hubu Guanpiao § Seals, overprints, and endorsements</a></div> Three kinds of stamps were used on Chinese banknotes, these were <a href="/wiki/Banknote_seal_(China)" title="Banknote seal (China)">"seals", "overprints", and "endorsements"</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> In general, seals were affixed by the issuing government authority with an official position. Overprints were added later after the banknote had already been placed into general circulation, overprints were the products of semi-officials who had some nominal form of authority the merchant class did not have. Endorsements represent acceptance of the Great Qing Treasure Note banknote as genuine and were generally placed on the reverse side (or blank side) of the banknote by the many cash shops, T'ien shops, and money changers through whose hands they would pass. The official seals which were placed on Qing dynasty era banknotes tended to serve a large variety of purposes.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> These government stamps were large or small, square or round, or oblong, they ware usually orange, vermilion, or wine-red in colour although certain seals also appear in black, they tended to be impressed on various parts of the banknote where there was space. The impression of an official seal proves the authenticity of the banknote, it also signified imperial Chinese authority, since every government official in China obtained his seal from the Chinese emperor. These Chinese seals are always <a href="/wiki/Bilingual" class="mw-redirect" title="Bilingual">bilingual</a> and are written in both <a href="/wiki/Hanzi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanzi">Chinese</a> and <a href="/wiki/Manchu_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchu script">Manchu scripts</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> In the centre of the Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes large vermilion seals were affixed to acknowledge that the specimen in question was authentic. The additional seals affixed on these banknotes are always positioned at either the left or right side of the note so that only a partial impression of the seal is visible.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> An extra round orange coloured seal may be seen at the top-right edge of all Great Qing Treasure Note cash notes. This seal is a pictograph in its form and at all times found to be only partially impressed on the paper. The purpose of these seals is not known to the American numismatist John E. Sandrock who suggested that this orange seal may have acted as a type of warning to those wishing to counterfeit these banknotes.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> Great Qing Treasure Note banknotes with the denominations of 500 wén, 1000 wén, 1500 wén, and 2000 wén also tended contain seals which were black in colour and oblong in shape, these tended to be located at the left center of the banknote beneath the Xianfeng era reign year and the date of issue.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> These seals served as the signature seals of the semi-officials who were in charge of noting the date of emission on the face of the banknote. Additionally all Hubu Guanpiao tael notes tend to carry the same oblong black seal on their face, however; those found on the Great Qing Treasure Note copper-alloy cash notes have a large variation and look more picturesque. The practice of placing these seals seems to have been abandoned after the introduction of denominations higher than 2000 wén in the year Xianfeng 6.<a href="#cite_note-SandrockCopperCashNotes-22">[22]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dangbaekjeon" title="Dangbaekjeon">Dangbaekjeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenp%C5%8D_Ts%C5%ABh%C5%8D" title="Tenpō Tsūhō">Tenpō Tsūhō</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%E1%BB%B1_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c_B%E1%BA%A3o_Sao" title="Tự Đức Bảo Sao">Tự Đức Bảo Sao</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-92"><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a> Note that the Chinese <a href="/wiki/Mandate_of_heaven" class="mw-redirect" title="Mandate of heaven">mandate of heaven</a> stipulated that the <a href="/wiki/Emperor_of_China" title="Emperor of China">Chinese Emperor</a> ruled over the entire world. </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Qing_Treasure_Note&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1981-0122-6">"banknote"</a>. 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0.25em"> <ul><li>1 <a href="/wiki/String_of_cash_coins_(currency_unit)" title="String of cash coins (currency unit)">String of cash coins (貫 / 吊 / 串 / 弔)</a> ≈ 1000 <a href="/wiki/Chinese_cash_(currency_unit)" title="Chinese cash (currency unit)">Cash (文)</a> or <a href="/w/index.php?title=Copper_coin_(currency_unit)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Copper coin (currency unit) (page does not exist)">Copper coin (枚)</a> </li> <li>1 <a href="/wiki/Tael" title="Tael">Tael (兩)</a> = 10 <a href="/wiki/Mace_(unit)" title="Mace (unit)">Mace (錢)</a> = 100 <a href="/wiki/Candareen" title="Candareen">Candareen (分)</a> = 1000 <a href="/wiki/Cash_(unit)" title="Cash (unit)">Cash (厘 / 釐)</a> </li> <li>1 <a href="/wiki/Yuan_(currency)" title="Yuan (currency)">Yuan / Dollar / Mexican dollar (元 / 圓)</a> = 10 <a href="/wiki/Jiao_(currency)" title="Jiao (currency)">Jiao or Hou (角 / 毫)</a> = 100 <a href="/wiki/Fen_(currency)" title="Fen (currency)">Fen or Sin (分 / 仙)</a> = 1000 Cash (厘 / 文)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Alternative currencies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bamboo_tally" title="Bamboo tally">Bamboo tally</a> (錢籌)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_token_(alternative_currency)" title="Chinese token (alternative currency)">Token coins</a> (中國代用幣)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div>See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Chinese_currency" title="History of Chinese currency">History of Chinese currency</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Qing_dynasty_topics" style="padding:3px"><table 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Grievances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Later_Jin_invasion_of_Joseon" title="Later Jin invasion of Joseon">Later Jin invasion of Joseon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qing_invasion_of_Joseon" title="Qing invasion of Joseon">Qing invasion of Joseon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transition_from_Ming_to_Qing" title="Transition from Ming to Qing">Transition from Ming to Qing</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shanhai_Pass" title="Battle of Shanhai Pass">Battle of Shanhai Pass</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Clearance" title="Great Clearance">Great Clearance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Penghu" title="Battle of Penghu">Battle of Penghu</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Three_Feudatories" title="Revolt of the Three Feudatories">Revolt of the Three Feudatories</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/High_Qing_era" title="High Qing era">High Qing</a> <div style="float: right;">(1683–1799)</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sino-Russian_border_conflicts" title="Sino-Russian border conflicts">Sino-Russian border conflicts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dzungar%E2%80%93Qing_Wars" title="Dzungar–Qing Wars">Dzungar–Qing Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_expedition_to_Tibet_(1720)" title="Chinese expedition to Tibet (1720)">Chinese expedition to Tibet (1720)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Rites_controversy" title="Chinese Rites controversy">Chinese Rites controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ten_Great_Campaigns" title="Ten Great Campaigns">Ten Great Campaigns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miao_Rebellion_(1735%E2%80%931736)" title="Miao Rebellion (1735–1736)">Miao Rebellion (1735–1736)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lhasa_riot_of_1750" title="Lhasa riot of 1750">Lhasa riot of 1750</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Altishahr_Khojas" title="Revolt of the Altishahr Khojas">Revolt of the Altishahr Khojas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afaqi_Khoja_revolts" title="Afaqi Khoja revolts">Afaqi Khoja revolts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sino-Burmese_War" title="Sino-Burmese War">Sino-Burmese War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lin_Shuangwen_rebellion" title="Lin Shuangwen rebellion">Lin Shuangwen rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_H%E1%BB%93i-%C4%90%E1%BB%91ng_%C4%90a" title="Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa">Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sino-Nepalese_War" title="Sino-Nepalese War">Sino-Nepalese War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miao_Rebellion_(1795%E2%80%931806)" title="Miao Rebellion (1795–1806)">Miao Rebellion (1795–1806)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Lotus_Rebellion" title="White Lotus Rebellion">White Lotus Rebellion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">19th century <div style="float: right;">(1801–1900)</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eight_Trigrams_uprising_of_1813" title="Eight Trigrams uprising of 1813">Eight Trigrams uprising of 1813</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Opium_War" title="First Opium War">First Opium War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dogra%E2%80%93Tibetan_war" title="Dogra–Tibetan war">Dogra–Tibetan war (Sino-Sikh war)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion" title="Taiping Rebellion">Taiping Rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nian_Rebellion" title="Nian Rebellion">Nian Rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Turban_Rebellion_(1854%E2%80%931856)" title="Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856)">Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Small_Swords_Society" title="Small Swords Society">Small Swords Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miao_Rebellion_(1854%E2%80%931873)" title="Miao Rebellion (1854–1873)">Miao Rebellion (1854–1873)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepal%E2%80%93Tibet_War_(1855%E2%80%931856)" title="Nepal–Tibet War (1855–1856)">Nepal–Tibet War (1855–1856)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panthay_Rebellion" title="Panthay Rebellion">Panthay Rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Opium_War" title="Second Opium War">Second Opium War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Punti%E2%80%93Hakka_Clan_Wars" title="Punti–Hakka Clan Wars">Punti–Hakka Clan Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amur_Annexation" title="Amur Annexation">Amur Annexation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-Strengthening_Movement" title="Self-Strengthening Movement">Self-Strengthening Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tongzhi_Restoration" title="Tongzhi Restoration">Tongzhi Restoration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dungan_Revolt_(1862%E2%80%931877)" title="Dungan Revolt (1862–1877)">Dungan Revolt (1862–1877)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mudan_incident" title="Mudan incident">Mudan incident</a></li> <li><a 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title="Gongche Shangshu movement">Gongche Shangshu movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dungan_Revolt_(1895%E2%80%931896)" title="Dungan Revolt (1895–1896)">Dungan Revolt (1895–1896)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hundred_Days%27_Reform" title="Hundred Days' Reform">Hundred Days' Reform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_plague_pandemic" title="Third plague pandemic">Third plague pandemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion" title="Boxer Rebellion">Boxer Rebellion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Red_Lanterns_(Boxer_Uprising)" title="Red Lanterns (Boxer Uprising)">Red Lanterns</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eight-Nation_Alliance" title="Eight-Nation Alliance">Eight-Nation Alliance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_decree_of_declaration_of_war_against_foreign_powers" title="Imperial decree of declaration of war against foreign powers">Declaration of war</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">20th 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expedition to Tibet (1910)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchurian_plague" title="Manchurian plague">Manchurian plague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Railway_Protection_Movement" title="Railway Protection Movement">Railway Protection Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1911_Revolution" title="1911 Revolution">1911 Revolution</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wuchang_Uprising" title="Wuchang Uprising">Wuchang Uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xinhai_Lhasa_turmoil" title="Xinhai Lhasa turmoil">Xinhai Lhasa turmoil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Revolution_of_1911" title="Mongolian Revolution of 1911">Mongolian Revolution of 1911</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1911_Revolution_in_Xinjiang" title="1911 Revolution in Xinjiang">1911 Revolution in Xinjiang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Edict_of_the_Abdication_of_the_Qing_Emperor" title="Imperial Edict of the Abdication of the Qing Emperor">Imperial Edict of the Abdication of Puyi</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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title="Shuishiying">Shuishiying</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wuwei_Corps" title="Wuwei Corps">Wuwei Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yong_Ying" title="Yong Ying">Yong Ying</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chu_Army" title="Chu Army">Chu Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huai_Army" title="Huai Army">Huai Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xiang_Army" title="Xiang Army">Xiang Army</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Chinese_Navy" title="Imperial Chinese Navy">Navy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Special regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Qing_dynasty_in_Inner_Asia" title="Qing dynasty in Inner Asia">Inner Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchuria_under_Qing_rule" title="Manchuria under Qing rule">Manchuria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongolia_under_Qing_rule" title="Mongolia under Qing 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href="/wiki/Fuling_Mausoleum" title="Fuling Mausoleum">Fuling Mausoleum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhao_Mausoleum_(Qing_dynasty)" title="Zhao Mausoleum (Qing dynasty)">Zhao Mausoleum (Qing dynasty)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Tombs_of_the_Ming_and_Qing_Dynasties" title="Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties">Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Society & culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Booi_Aha" title="Booi Aha">Booi Aha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Changzhou_School_of_Thought" title="Changzhou School of Thought">Changzhou School of Thought</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complete_Classics_Collection_of_Ancient_China" title="Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China">Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dibao" title="Dibao">Dibao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_Qing_dynasty" title="Economy of the Qing dynasty">Economy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_Qing_dynasty%27s_economic_performance" title="Criticism of Qing dynasty's economic performance">performance criticism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Wangs" title="Four Wangs">Four Wangs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ming" title="History of Ming">History of Ming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kangxi_Dictionary" title="Kangxi Dictionary">Kangxi Dictionary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaozheng" title="Kaozheng">Kaozheng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literary_inquisition" title="Literary inquisition">Literary inquisition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchu_Han_Imperial_Feast" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchu Han Imperial Feast">Manchu Han Imperial Feast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peiwen_Yunfu" title="Peiwen Yunfu">Peiwen Yunfu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pentaglot_Dictionary" title="Pentaglot Dictionary">Pentaglot Dictionary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qing_official_headwear" title="Qing official headwear">Qing official headwear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qing_poetry" title="Qing poetry">Qing poetry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complete_Tang_Poems" title="Complete Tang Poems">Complete Tang Poems</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queue_(hairstyle)" title="Queue (hairstyle)">Queue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Researches_on_Manchu_Origins" title="Researches on Manchu Origins">Researches on Manchu Origins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacred_Edict_of_the_Kangxi_Emperor" title="Sacred Edict of the Kangxi Emperor">Sacred Edict of the Kangxi Emperor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shamanism_during_the_Qing_dynasty" title="Shamanism during the Qing dynasty">Shamanism during the Qing dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islam_during_the_Qing_dynasty" title="Islam during the Qing dynasty">Islam during the Qing dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siku_Quanshu" title="Siku Quanshu">Complete Library of the Four Treasuries</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siku_Quanshu_Zongmu_Tiyao" title="Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao">Annotated Bibliography</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_treaties_of_China_before_the_People%27s_Republic#Qing_dynasty" title="List of treaties of China before the People's Republic">Treaties</a> </th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Kyakhta_(1727)" title="Treaty of Kyakhta (1727)">Treaty of Kyakhta (1727)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Nerchinsk" title="Treaty of Nerchinsk">Treaty of Nerchinsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unequal_treaties" title="Unequal treaties">Unequal treaties</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boxer_Protocol" title="Boxer Protocol">Boxer Protocol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burlingame_Treaty" title="Burlingame Treaty">Burlingame Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chefoo_Convention" title="Chefoo Convention">Chefoo Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convention_Between_Great_Britain_and_China_Respecting_Tibet" title="Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet">Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convention_for_the_Extension_of_Hong_Kong_Territory" title="Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory">Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convention_of_Peking" title="Convention of Peking">Convention of Peking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convention_of_Tientsin" title="Convention of Tientsin">Convention of Tientsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li%E2%80%93Lobanov_Treaty" title="Li–Lobanov Treaty">Li–Lobanov Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sino-Portuguese_Treaty_of_Peking" title="Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking">Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Aigun" title="Treaty of Aigun">Treaty of Aigun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Bogue" title="Treaty of the Bogue">Treaty of the Bogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Canton" title="Treaty of Canton">Treaty of Canton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Kulja" title="Treaty of Kulja">Treaty of Kulja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Nanking" title="Treaty of Nanking">Treaty of Nanking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Saint_Petersburg_(1881)" title="Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881)">Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Shimonoseki" title="Treaty of Shimonoseki">Treaty of Shimonoseki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Tarbagatai" title="Treaty of Tarbagatai">Treaty of Tarbagatai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Tientsin" title="Treaty of Tientsin">Treaty of Tientsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Wanghia" title="Treaty of Wanghia">Treaty of Wanghia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Whampoa" title="Treaty of 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Copper Coin">Great Qing Copper Coin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Qing_Gold_Coin" title="Great Qing Gold Coin">Great Qing Gold Coin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Paper_money_of_the_Qing_dynasty" title="Paper money of the Qing dynasty">Paper money</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Great Qing Treasure Note</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubu_Guanpiao" title="Hubu Guanpiao">Hubu Guanpiao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Da_Qing_Bank" title="Banknotes of the Da Qing Bank">Banknotes of the Da Qing Bank</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Other topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" 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people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Names_of_the_Qing_dynasty" title="Names of the Qing dynasty">Names of the Qing dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Qing_History" title="New Qing History">New Qing History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_late_anti-Qing_rebellions" title="Timeline of late anti-Qing rebellions">Timeline of late anti-Qing rebellions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_ports" title="Treaty ports">Treaty ports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willow_Palisade" title="Willow Palisade">Willow Palisade</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Chinese_paper_money" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible expanded navbox-inner" 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cash coins by inscription</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Chinese_coinage" title="Ancient Chinese coinage">Ancient Chinese coinage</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dynasties_in_Chinese_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Dynasties in Chinese history">By period (before 1912)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zhou_dynasty_coinage" title="Zhou dynasty coinage">Zhou dynasty coinage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty_coinage" title="Han dynasty coinage">Han dynasty coinage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xin_dynasty_coinage" title="Xin dynasty coinage">Xin dynasty coinage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Tang_coinage" title="Southern Tang coinage">Southern Tang coinage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liao_dynasty_coinage" title="Liao dynasty coinage">Liao dynasty coinage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Da_Shu_coinage" title="Da Shu coinage">Da Shu coinage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Song_dynasty_coinage" title="Southern Song dynasty coinage">Southern Song dynasty coinage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Xia_coinage" title="Western Xia coinage">Western Xia coinage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jin_dynasty_coinage_(1115%E2%80%931234)" title="Jin dynasty coinage (1115–1234)">Jin dynasty coinage (1115–1234)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Da_Qi_coinage" class="mw-redirect" title="Da Qi coinage">Da Qi coinage</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuan_dynasty_coinage" title="Yuan dynasty coinage">Yuan dynasty coinage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ming_dynasty_coinage" title="Ming dynasty coinage">Ming dynasty coinage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qing_dynasty_coinage" title="Qing dynasty coinage">Qing dynasty coinage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paper_money_of_the_Qing_dynasty" title="Paper money of the Qing dynasty">Paper money of the Qing dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shengbao_(currency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shengbao (currency)">Shengbao</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other territories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historical_money_of_Tibet" title="Historical money of Tibet">Historical money of Tibet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kucha_coinage" title="Kucha coinage">Kucha coinage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchukuo_yuan" title="Manchukuo yuan">Manchukuo yuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mengjiang_yuan" title="Mengjiang yuan">Mengjiang yuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xinjiang_coins" title="Xinjiang coins">Xinjiang coins</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hongqian" title="Hongqian">Hongqian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuan_of_the_Red_Army_Command" title="Yuan of the Red Army Command">Yuan of the Red Army Command</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_China#Ancient_China" title="History of China">Ancient</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shell_money#East,_South_and_Southeast_Asia" title="Shell money">Cowrie shell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tong_Bei" title="Tong Bei">Tong Bei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ant-nose_coin" title="Ant-nose coin">Ant-nose coin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knife_money" title="Knife money">Knife money</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ying_Yuan" title="Ying Yuan">Ying Yuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spade_money" title="Spade money">Spade money</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_China#Imperial_China" title="History of China">Imperial</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cash_(Chinese_coin)" title="Cash (Chinese coin)">Cash coins</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/String_of_cash_coins_(currency_unit)" title="String of cash coins (currency unit)">Strings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ban_Liang" title="Ban Liang">Ban Liang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wu_Zhu" title="Wu Zhu">Wu Zhu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaiyuan_Tongbao" title="Kaiyuan Tongbao">Kaiyuan Tongbao</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sycee" title="Sycee">Sycee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flying_cash" title="Flying cash">Flying cash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jiaozi_(currency)" title="Jiaozi (currency)">Jiaozi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guanzi_(currency)" title="Guanzi (currency)">Guanzi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huizi_(currency)" title="Huizi (currency)">Huizi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jiaochao" title="Jiaochao">Jiaochao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Ming_Treasure_Note" title="Great Ming Treasure Note">Great Ming Treasure Note</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Great Qing Treasure Note</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubu_Guanpiao" title="Hubu Guanpiao">Hubu Guanpiao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silver_Dragon_(coin)" title="Silver Dragon (coin)">Silver Dragon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Manufacturing and casting process</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mother_coin" title="Mother coin">Mother coin</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancestor_coin" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancestor coin">Ancestor coin</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Near modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_cash_(currency_unit)" title="Chinese cash (currency unit)">Cash (wén)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candareen" title="Candareen">Candareen (fēn)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mace_(unit)" title="Mace (unit)">Mace (qián)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tael" title="Tael">Tael (liǎng)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuan_(currency)" title="Yuan (currency)">Yuan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historical exonumia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_numismatic_charm" title="Chinese numismatic charm">Charms and amulets (Yansheng)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horse_coin" title="Horse coin">Horse coin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vault_protector_coin" title="Vault protector coin">Vault protector coin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhaona_Xinbao" title="Zhaona Xinbao">Zhaona Xinbao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bamboo_tally" title="Bamboo tally">Bamboo tally</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_token_(alternative_currency)" title="Chinese token 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