Paper money

Museum number:
9-21357
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090021357
Alternate number:
X III 11 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4697
Description:
I-Ho money Bill. Issued by the I-Ho mint. Denomination ”Three string of cash." Framed inscription, upper left: the Confucian exposition of the values of the rule, the official, father, son, elder and younger brother and spouses. Lower red seal: stamp of the mint. Red seal top center only partly legible: "? eighty cash not to be discounted ? by authorities in all provinces”.
Donor:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
Manchu (Qing) Dynasty 1644-1911 (?)
Culture or time period:
Manchu people and Qing dynasty (1644–1912 AD)
Collector:
Ilse Martin Fang
Materials:
Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Paper money
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
Manchu (Qing) Dynasty (?)
Accession date:
December 15, 1998
Context of use:
Currency.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Paper money, accession number 9-21357, described as I-Ho money Bill. Issued by the I-Ho mint. Denomination ”Three string of cash." Framed inscription, upper left: the Confucian exposition of the values of the rule, the official, father, son, elder and younger brother and spouses. Lower red seal: stamp of the mint. Red seal top center only partly legible: "? eighty cash not to be discounted ? by authorities in all provinces”.

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