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Chinese puppet states

Started by gxseries, December 01, 2011, 01:06:16 PM

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gxseries

I created a digital album version of the coins that I got - Manchukuo, East Hopei, Inner Mongolia, Hua Hsing and Federal Reserve Bank. Looks pretty interesting and challenging. I guess I like to start hard type sets...

Nevertheless, here are the links:

http://www.gxseries.com/numis/china/album/manchukuo1.htm

http://www.gxseries.com/numis/china/album/puppet1.htm

Enjoy

villa66

Nice start in a tough area. Thanks for the look.

:) v.

Harald

pretty interesting area indeed.
most of the coins always come in high grades, except for the Manchurian ones. I imagine that the Chinese
were not particularly fond of them and the coins did not circulate. In addition, the "autonomous" states were
extremely short lived, e.g. the "Autonomous Anti-Comintern Government of East Hebei" (no kidding) was around
for a bit more than 2 years.

Inner Mongolia (when it already had changed name from Mengjiang to Mongolian Federation) has issued a
nice set of aluminium coins, which was never issued though. If you wish to include them in your collection
you need the right budget: http://www.stacksbowers.com/Auctions/AuctionLot.aspx?LotID=241127

cheers
--
Harald
http://www.liganda.ch (monetary history & numismatic linguistics)

translateltd

Quote from: Harald on December 04, 2011, 09:14:43 PM

Inner Mongolia (when it already had changed name from Mengjiang to Mongolian Federation) has issued a
nice set of aluminium coins, which was never issued though. If you wish to include them in your collection
you need the right budget: http://www.stacksbowers.com/Auctions/AuctionLot.aspx?LotID=241127


Interesting - these still show the name Mengjiang Bank in Chinese.  Curious about the year 738 date at the top, which is definitely what the coin says.  What era is that, I wonder.



Harald

The idea was to create a state for all Mongols under Japanese supremacy. Therefore a new era was invented that starts in the year AD1206, when Genghis Khan seized power (his birth year is not known, therefore it cannot be used as a starting point).

It appears that the Mengjiang bank did continue operation after 1941, but in fact no other territory was added to the "federation" either.


cheers
--
Harald
http://www.liganda.ch (monetary history & numismatic linguistics)

capnbirdseye

Vic

Chinasmith

Only the 5 chiao Mengchiang coin was issued for circulation. The other pieces are unissued patterns. The Mengchiang Bank did issue a series of banknotes.
Researcher on coins, paper money and tokens of China.