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KIAUCHAU: Wilhelm II, 1898-1914, 10 cents, 1909, PCGS MS65

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KIAUCHAU: Wilhelm II, 1898-1914, 10 cents, 1909, PCGS MS65
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KIAUCHAU: Wilhelm II, 1898-1914, 10 cents, 1909, Y-2, J-730, Deutsche Kiautschou Gebiet // Chinese inscription dà dé guó bao at center, qing dao above, a superb mint state example! PCGS graded MS65. The Kiau Chau Bay concession (Kiautschou Bucht in German, Jiaozhou Wan in Chinese) was a territory leased by Germany from 1898 to 1914. The administrative center of the territory was located at Tsingtau (Qingdao). The Deutsch-Asiatische Bank issued copper-nickel 5 cents and 10 cents in October 1909 to cope with market confusion arising from the exchange between the Mexican 8 reales (which Chinese merchants commonly used) and the German mark. It was decreed that local authority had unlimited obligations to exchange these coins for Mexican 8 reales (as 1 yuan) and may not refuse them for transactions within 3 yuan. When Tsingtao was occupied by the Japanese military on November 7, 1914, these coins ceased to circulate.