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.
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.