CHINESE "UNLISTED" BANKNOTES
    There are many books on Chinese banknotes, most, unfortunately for my purposes, written in Chinese.  My spoken Chinese is about as good as your average 15 month old, my reading at about the 2nd month of the 1st grade.  There are 2 references in English that are widely used to attribute Chinese banknotes: The Krause Publications Standard Catalogs and the book by Smith & Matravers.  Between them one can nail about 4500 notes.  There are tens of thousands more, many printed on behalf of small businesses.  These on this page, unlisted in either, were roughed out by a conference with my Chinese restaurant owner friend, Cody Tseng, followed up by some work with my dictionary and a bit of geographic web search.  Cody, raised and educated in Taiwan, could not read a few of them due to abbreviations and ambiguities.
    As is my normal procedure, these were first offered in the monthly pricelist for June 2004, numbered 223.  For our mutual convenience I have left the reference numbers in place.  There is some exceedingly cool artwork on some of these.
    The listings are internally organized as follows: CHINA, PROVINCE, District or City, Village, Shop.

223-46. CHINA, No Location on note, Kong Sun Lo Pian butcher shop, handwritten, red inkstamps,
a) 1000 wen, Guang Xu year 12 (1887), month 9, day 24, 95x185mm, VF $55.00 sold
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b) 2000 wen, Guang Xu year 20, month 11, day 6 (1895), 89x178mm, VF $55.00 sold
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223-47. CHINA, ANHUI?, Anping, Yi Tseng Lung shop, 3 tiao ND 111x214mm corner bite, F $17.00 sold
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223-48. CHINA, ANHUI?, Chengnan, Zheng Wan Tai Xi, 1 tiao ND 111x176mm AU $27.00 sold
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223-49. CHINA, ANHUI?, Fushanzhen, 1 yuan yr 28 (1939) 136x81mm aG $13.00 sold 10/1/2009
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223-50. CHINA, ANHUI, Huangshan Inn, 1 tiao yr 14 (1925) black / brown, river
scenes 151x91mm VG $15.00 sold
-same, Unc $41.50 sold
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223-51. CHINA, FUJIAN, Dashen, Gong Xian Fu, 10 tiao ND 77x220mm VF $18.00 sold
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223-52. CHINA, FUJIAN, Layang, Di Shang, Yong Xing Ko, 1000 wen yr 3 (1914), month 9, day 4, 100x184mm lightly foxed, XF $31.00 sold
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223-53. CHINA, FUJIAN, Layang, Fu Song Hao, 1000 wen ND 112x175mm G $19.00 sold
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223-54. CHINA, FUJIAN, Layang,
a) 1 yuan yr 30 (1941) 143x75mm G $14.00 sold
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b) 10 yuan yr 32 (1943) temporary currency 137x72mm, F $16.00 sold
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223-55. CHINA, GUANGDONG, Chenjiang, Zhenghai, Fu Yi Sheng, 100 wen year 7 (1918), 10 month, 10 day 89x188mm VG $28.00 sold
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223-56. CHINA, GUANGDONG?, Yaoxichuang, Guang Jiu Ten,
 a) 2 tiao ND 100x195mm couple of nicks & small hole, XF $18.00 sold
b) 3 tiao ND 100x195mm XF $26.00 sold
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223-57. CHINA, GUANGXI, Pingfu, Chan Song De,
a) 3000 wen ND purple, green, red, black / brown 102x185mm, foxed, corner bite, XF $13.00 sold
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b) 3000 wen ND blue, VF 97x194mm, missing corner, VF $12.00 sold
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223-58. CHINA, GUIZHOU, Weixin, Mindong Silver Shop, 5 jiao yr 31 (1942)
 110x57mm, VG $12.00 sold
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223-59. CHINA, HUNAN, Beizhoushanzhuang, San Chen Yong, 2 tiao ND 99x192mm AU $18.00 sold
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223-60. CHINA, HUNAN?, Liuxi, Majiawan, Tai Lin Chang, 3 jiao year 20 (1931) 115x60mm Unc $26.00 sold 10/1/2009
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223-61. CHINA, JIANGXI?, Songguansan, Liuchaojiu, Yi He Shang, 1 tiao ND
75x259mm XF $22.00 sold
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223-62. CHINA, JIANGXI?, Songguansan, Tong Xian Tai,
 a) 1000 wen ND 76x260mm XF $26.00 sold
b) 2000 wen ND 76x260mm XF $26.00 sold
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c) 3000 wen ND 76x260mm XF $26.00 sold
d) 5000 wen ND 76x260mm XF $26.00 sold

223-63. CHINA, JILIN, Yong Yuan He Qian, 10 tiao ND 111x216mm VF $31.00 sold
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223-64. CHINA, LINCHIU?, Wan Tang Cang, 3 tiao ND 76x263mm F $16.00 sold
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223-65. CHINA, Shantung Province 17th District Administration Exchange Bureau, 500 yuan 1946 bridge VG $21.00 sold
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223-66. CHINA, SHANDONG, Shoukuang Yumin B., 50 yuan 1944 temple / brown, F $21.00 sold
223-67. CHINA, SHANDONG, Chaoxian, temporary currency, yr 30 (1941) 134x72mm:
 a) 1 yuan yellow / blue, numerals only serial #, G $10.00 sold
 b) 1 yuan black vignette, orange frame / blue, "B" prefix serial #, G $10.00 sold

c) 10 yuan "B" prefix serial # F $16.00 sold
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223-68. CHINA, SHANDONG, Leling, Tong Ma Da Che, Tong Xing Hao, 1 tiao ND 89x175mm, 2 wormholes, F $21.00 sold
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223-69. CHINA, SHANDONG?, Pingdu 5th District, 1 yuan yr 31 (1942) temporary currency 138x70mm, hole, scrape, VG $18.00 sold
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223-70. CHINA, SHANDONG, Shanhousunjia, Ho Xing Ren, 1000 wen ND 101x183mm XF $26.00 sold
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223-72. CHINA, UNKNOWN PROVINCE, Wei Yang, Kong San Tu, 6 (tiao) ND 67x250mm back only, F $12.00 sold
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223-73. CHINA, XINHUASHAN, Yu Yuan Chang Hao, 1 yuan year 34 (1935) back: CHING CHI PAO CHUANG (Roman letters), 127x73mm, VF $18.00 sold
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223-74. CHINA, XINHUASHAN, Yong San Chen, 3 jiao year 24 (1935) 104x54mm, AU $21.00 sold
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223-75. CHINA, ZHEJIANG?, Anhua, So An Yong, 2 jiao yr 22 (1933) 111x65mm Unc $26.00 sold
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223-76. CHINA, LOCATION NOT NAMED?, Yi Xin Yuan, ND (19th c.) 76x269mm:
a) 1 tiao, edge bite, XF $13.00 sold 6/23/2008
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b) 2 tiao, tears, VG $16.00 sold 6/23/2008
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