Republic of China

Kind

republic

Region

East Asia, Asia

Recorded period

1912 – 1949

Continued on Taiwan after 1949; mainland succeeded by the People's Republic of China.

Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.

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modern coins

Republic of China silver dollar

Republican era

The Republic of China silver dollar encompasses crown-sized one-yuan silver coins minted under the Republican government to standardize the domestic currency and replace foreign silver coinage and imperial dragon dollars. The denomination originated with limited 1912 commemorative issues depicting Sun Yat-sen and Li…

Documented

Partial type record

Wikimedia Commons

stamps

Republic of China stamps

1912-1949

Republic of China stamps are postal issues introduced following the 1911 revolution that brought an end to the Qing dynasty. Prior to the production of entirely new designs, the postal administration authorised overprints on existing imperial stamps in 1912. These markings included local overprints applied at Fuzhou…

Documented

Research required

Smithsonian National Postal Museum

stamps

General Chang Tso-lin photographic essay

1928

This collection of early Chinese die proofs, engraver's models, ink drawings and essays from 1912 to 1928, was donated in 1964 by Robert Hopkins. Hopkins was the son in-law of William A Grant, an engraver at the American Bank Note Company who was one of two Americans responsible for establishing the Chinese Bureau o…

Documented

Partial type record

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