China Foreign Banks 1 Gold Fen 1915 Russo-Asiatic Bank P-S479.
A rather unusual issue of notes was made by the Russo-Asiatic Bank for its Turkestan branches (Kashgar, Kuld'sha and Changuchak). These notes were in circulation from 1913 to 1924. China had become a republic in 1911, but despite this the Turkestan notes, printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson and Company in London, prominently displayed the imperial dragon on the obverse and reverse. This set of notes was distinguishable from all other foreign money because they were denominated in fixed weights of pure gold, rather that specific monetary units.