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This site contains a comprehensive collection of Chinese paper money and banknotes on the internet. Dedicated mainly to numismatics and coins.
Additions will include East Asia (Japanese, Hong Kong, Korean, etc), and eventually the worlds' paper money.

The site details...
  1. Information, awareness, and education on numismatics.
  2. Banknotes for purchase geared towards collectors.
  3. Comprehensive history and information on paper money.
This site aims to be comprehensive. You can help complete the collection by donating or purchasing missing banknotes that you want. Just provide the MD number of the missing piece you wish to purchase or have evaluation on, and this site will improve, containing photographs and detailed information on each piece of banknote. All pieces are for sale. If one is sold, a similar or better version will be purchased and photographed to replace it. Feel free to donate banknotes to this site (worn and in poor condition accepted) if you have duplicates. You can also donate money to support this endeavor.
To purchase a banknote (worn or mint), check MD number webpage to get you up to speed with Chinese banknotes, and then visit contact link below for inquiry.



As a warning to collectors of Chinese banknotes. There are many fake banknotes in circulation. The paper money issued in the early days of China lacked sophisticated countermeasures to counterfeiters, thus they were easily copied. There are bad copies and there are good copies. You can protect yourself checking this section first:

Detecting Counterfeit and Fake Chinese paper money
If you have a piece of banknote that you wish a valuation, it costs just $5 for a banknote. Inquire at the contact link below if this interests you.


MD (Money Depot) Number Categorization DescriptionFor understanding how Chinese banknotes are differentiated from each other.
Chinese NumbersFor easy translation of numerical Chinese characters and their actual value number.
Contact and FeedbackFor questions, comments, and seeking of services (purchase, evaluation, etc)


Below are the actual banknotes (Chinese paper money specifically). It uses MD Number for categorization, so do understand it first as it is very useful for categorizing Chinese currency. Unlike generic random Pick numbers, all the banknotes listed here use this unique categorization so that you can easily differentiate between them. Throughout the history of China, there were six major banks that were responsible for the release of Chinese paper money:

Mainland ChinaBank of Communications
Mainland ChinaBank of China
Mainland ChinaCentral Bank of China
Mainland ChinaCentral Reserve Bank of China
Mainland ChinaFarmers Bank of China
Mainland China (1948-1953)Peoples Republic of China (First Series)
Mainland China (1953-1956)Peoples Republic of China (Second Series)
Mainland China (1960-1972)Peoples Republic of China (Third Series)
Mainland China (1980-1996)Peoples Republic of China (Fourth Series)
Mainland China (1999-Now)Peoples Republic of China (Fifth Series)Buy this complete series for a low price!
TaiwanReorganizing
Hong KongReorganizing
MacauReorganizing

There are other banks of course, but you should be aware of these six banks as they are the most prominent throughout Chinese history. The current Peoples Bank of China only issues money and doesn't actually offer normal banking services (ATM, savings accounts, etc) like Bank of Communications and Farmers Bank of China. Note that Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau also have different banks, publishing money under different authority and printers.

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