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Week #458 Happy Friday Everbody!

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Q. Eleven foreign banks issued bank notes in Imperial China in the early 1900’s. Can you list the 9 countries these banks are based in?

 

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1. Bank Belge Pour l'Etranger (Banque Sino-Belge) (Hankow, Peking, Shanghai, Tientsin)

2. British and Belgian Industrial Bank of China (Changsha)

3. Deutsche-Asiatische Bank (Hankow, Peking, Shanghai, Tientsin, Tsingtao)

4. International Banking Corporation (Canton, Hankow, Harbin, Peking, Shanghai, Tientsin)

5. Banque de l'Indochine (Canton, Shameen, Shanghai)

6. Banco Nacional Ultramarino (Macao)

7. Netherlands Trading Society (Shanghai)

8. Russo-Asiatic Bank (Harbin, Kuld'sha, Changuchak, Kashgar, Newchwang, Peking, Shanghai, Tientsin)

9. Sino-Belgian Bank (Banque Sino-Belge) (Hankow, Shanghai, Tientsin)

10. Bank of Taiwan, Ltd. (Amoy, Canton, Foochow, Hankow, Kiukiang, Shanghai, Swatow)

11. Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd. (Dairen, Hankow, Harbin, Newchwang, Peking, Shanghai,

Tientsin, Tsinan)

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Question: Eleven foreign banks issued bank notes in Imperial China in the early 1900’s. Can you list the 9 countries these banks are based in?

 

Answer: Answer: Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, United States, France, Portugal, Netherlands, Russia, & Japan

 

 

Congratulations to dan8402 and runner up jamorse99!

 

Thanks for playing this weeks Numisma-Quest. Dont forget to stop by for this weeks NGC question! Happy New Year

 

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