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Auction: CSS118B - China Banknotes and Coins
Lot: 1162

Tainan Provincial Office, Taiwan, China, 500 cash, GuangXu Year 21 (1895), serial number 868, with reissue overprint,
(Pick 1903c), LCG 25, LCG mislabelled as Pick 1905c. According to pieced-together records from various experienced collectors, the 500 cash denomination of this series is by far the rarest with less than 10 known and has seen the least amount of circulation time - 7 days at most before the Capitulation of Tainan on the 21st of October 1895. Ex- Taiwan Global Numismatic Auction Volume 11 (2006).

Estimate
HK$70,000 to HK$100,000

Starting price
HK$70000