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China banknotes 10 Yuan 1923 National Commercial Bank

Banknotes China Republic Chinese Banks 10 Yuan Mandarin 1923 National Commercial Bank

China banknotes 10 Yuan Rooster 1923 National Commercial Bank
Banknotes of China Republic - Chinese Banks 10 Yuan 1923 National Commercial Bank Limited

Obverse: Mandarin at center with multicolored guilloches flanking.
Reverse: Rooster at left.
Printer: ABNC - American Bank Note Company, New York.


Mandarin (bureaucrat)
A mandarin was a bureaucrat scholar in the government of imperial China and Vietnam. The term is generally applied to the officials appointed through the imperial examination system; it sometimes includes and sometimes excludes the eunuchs also involved in the governance of the two realms.