Amoy Industrial Bank - Need Information

Sorry, only a perper version exists.
Erwin

Hi Chinnotes, I am keen to get a copy of the article you wrote about the puppet banks.

How do I get in touch with you?

The one and five cents have no serial number.

There are two types of 10 cents notes but both have serial number.

All notes (1c ti 50c) are smooth by hand feeling except the one type of 10c.

I don't here anything thing about these fake notes as I am not a serious note collector.

I no longer purchase Krause books. In my Specialized Edition from 1990s Amoy Industrial Bank is not listed at all. So my reference has become Banknote.ws. For some reason Banknote.ws website has changed S1659 to S1658 and added S1657A as 20 Cents. Does anyone know why?

http://www.banknote.ws/COLLECTION/c...20INDUSTRIAL

These notes seems so fresh cut and have two different serial number placement variants (front and back) that I suspect these could be modern?
Why is Krause listing them at such exorbitantly high values? Story from the 90s: Krause book values high for notes that "supporting" dealers want to sell and low when "supporting" dealers want to buy them. Smells a bit of a corruption. I would not trust Krause Publications.

Here is an aswer that was posted on the IBNS board yesterday.


Slotting in A helps avoid disturbing the previous sequential numbers.In Smith Matravers 1971 the original list did not have the 25 ct or indeed the 5 ct. Also it recorded reported 1918 notes perhaps implying there were two banks with the same name 20 years apart.
Further to this the notes came into the market only 3 or 4 years ago in a large quantity, all unused unc suggesting a stock had been dispersed. The entries in the Specialised catalogue do not show the S/M equivalents. Naturally. All of this generated uncertainty for the Specialised team. I tend not to be suspicious about the unused notes because the 1971 book has one 10 ct illustrated and it also was unused.