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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).


光緒二十一年臺南官錢票伍佰文，南字第868號，有加蓋，LCG 25，LCG錯標為Pick 1905c。根據多位資深收藏家拼湊的紀錄，此系列中面額伍佰文的錢票迄今為止最為稀有，已知存世量不足十張，且流通時間最短-在1895年10月21日臺南失陷前，最多僅流通七日。前天下珍藏拍賣第11期下冊之拍品

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