Hello, I have these Chinese banknotes I got a few years ago and I was wondering if I could get some help identifying them. I know these notes have the front of this banknote: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note223810.html but I've never seen them uniface and without the serial number and seal before. Is it possible that these notes are either counterfeit, a pattern, or a test note of some kind? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Very interesting, either it's an incomplete printing or an incomplete contemporary counterfeit. I tend to believe it's an incomplete printing, because of the low value of the note, but I'm not sure how it would happen. With US notes, the first printing is the reverse, the second is the obverse, and the third is the serial number and seals. Perhaps, the first printing for this note was the obverse, and the additional printings did not occur?
That's kind of what I was thinking as well. What's really interesting to me s that these notes look circulated. Could it be that these notes were actually used in circulation? Another thing which I thought was that they could be some sort of emergency or counterfeit note from the Chinese civil war. I know during that time there were so many different notes made during that time. I Unfourtunally don't have the regular note to compare them with.
