632 DAVIS. 



APPENDIX: TRANSLATIONS FROM OTHER SOURCES. 



{Srx Reproductions from Ssu Chao Ch'ao Pi T'u Lu and two from 

 THE Journal of the Peking Oriental Soceety.) 



Plate 151. Remaining Portion of the Tri-Conjunctive Major 

 Note of the Chin Dynasty. 



Illustration No. 1 from the "Ssu Chao Ch'ao Pi T'u Lu". 



(Illustrated Record of the Paper-Money of the Four Dynasties).* 



The Tri-Conjunctive f Major Note of the Chin Dynasty. 



Although more than half of the lower part of this note is missing, 

 it is clear that this is the Tri-Conjunctive Exchange-Note. In the 

 history of the Chin Dynasty, it is recorded that in 1154 A.D. exchange- 

 notes were issued, the denominations being 1, 2, 3, 5 and 10 kwan, of 

 the major class, and 100, 200, 300, 500 and 700 wen of the minor class. 

 History also refers to the fact that in 1202 A.D. the use of the Tri-Con- 

 junctive Exchange-Notes, which had been in circulation for some 

 years, ceased. This is the only mention of a "Tri-Conjunctive 

 Exchange-Note", but the date of its issuance is lacking. 



The note illustrated bears, outside the border, the inscription 

 *'Chung-tu (Peking) Conjoined", "Nanking Conjoined" and "P'ing- 

 liang Fu Conjoined", and proves that the treasuries of these three 

 places were associated in its issuance; hence the name "Tri-Con- 

 junctive Exchange-Note". The note must have first been used some 

 time after 1180 A.D., as it was in this year that a regulation was 

 enacted to the effect that SO wen of cash would be accepted for each 100 

 wen on a note; and this 10 kwan note bears under the figure " One Ten 

 Kwan" two characters meaning "Eighty", below which there must 

 have been two characters , meaning "Sufficient for One Hundred". 

 It is now clear that this Tri-Conjunctive Ten Kwan Note was in 

 circulation between 1180 and 1202 A.D. (Extract from the original 

 text.) 



* By Lo Chcn-yu. K. T. 



t '1 nc fluinicter used contains the idea of a contract, or association, or parti- 

 cipation. K. T. 



