Help On China Banknote ID Pre-1939?

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I wonder if they are "Joss paper" "Hell Notes"?

Others here will know more than I be patient and you will get some assistance soon...

Thanks for the quick responses. I did a bunch more searching through images and still haven't gotten any closer. Surely this and its' smaller 1 Fen version are listed somewhere. I'll see what I can find using this new info, though I'm not quite sure what search terms would be best. I'm betting that as soon as I know the right term to look for I'll find it isn't all that rare or special in any sense of the word. :)

Would something like this even be able to be found in a catalog?

The Japanese invasion and occupation of China during World War II caused severe disruption to the economy.

One result was a critical shortage of small denomination coins. Merchants turned to using needles, matchsticks, stamps, etc. to try to make change for customers making purchases.

Not surprisingly, customers were not happy accumulating needles and matchsticks.

Merchants then began to issue "vouchers" which could substitute for money but which only circulated in a very limited geographical area.

This "note" is one such voucher with a value of 5 fen. A hundred fen of these vouchers could supposedly be exchanged for one yuan of "legal tender" if you could find someone willing to make the transaction.

This voucher was not issued in Taiwan. It was issued in Dahuanggu Village. Dahuanggu Village was a subdivision established in 1935 as part of present-day Pinghu which is a city located just outside of Shanghai.

Also, the voucher is not dated 1929. It was issued in "the 29th year of the Republic of China" which would be the year 1940.

I think you will find it difficult, and perhaps even impossible, to find much information on these types of locally-issued vouchers. According to this Chinese article, during the period 1939-1942 merchants in the Shanghai area alone issued more than 20,000 types of vouchers.

Gary

Excellent info manymore!

Last night I had come to the same conclusion regarding the 29th year based on info from banknote.ws and this, your(?), wonderful page on Chinese Paper Money. ( Which, FYI, is being copied to this cultural china site with an assertion of 'All Rights Reserved' )

Amazing how much strife the people of those regions have gone through. During my research last night I was reading Jiangxi--Fujian Soviet - economics on wikipedia and thinking about how dangerous it was being a 'professional' (in today's sense of the word) banker. Who would have ever thought...

Thanks again, I'll see if I can find out anything else.

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So now the question is, what should be done next in trying to assign a value?

Here's the image of the '1 Fen' version, note that this one differs in that it has a 'stamp', though I can't sem to get a good image of it...