634 DAVIS. 



Translation of the inscriptions. 



Outside the top border: 

 " One Ten Kxccm." 

 Inside the panel, center: 



" One Ten Kwan, Eighty " 



Within the panel, at the right: 



"Counterfeit " 



Within the Panel at the left: 



"'....' Mark" or "Number." 



Outside the left-hand decorated border; 



" Chung-tu Conjoined." 



"Nanking Conjoined." 



" P'ing-liemg Fu Conjoined." 



Plate 152. Shantung Tung-lu Ten Kwan Note. 



Illustration No. 2 from the Ssu Chad Ch'ao Pi T'u Lu." 



The Shantung Tung-lu Ten Kwan Note of the Chin Dynasty. 



This note was in circulation in the Eastern District (Tung-lu) of 

 the Shantung Province. About 1216 A.D. the government established 

 in the various Districts treasuries which were allowed to issue notes in 

 place of specie. Up to this time there had been only two Government 

 Printed-Note Offices — one in Peking and the other in Nanking. 

 For the Eastern District of the Shantung Province the treasuries 

 were located in I-tu Fu and Chi-nan Fu. The note herewith illus- 

 trated is of this district. History does not mention the exact time 

 of the circulation of this note. However, it could be placed in the 

 period between 1183 and 1197 A.D. The following fact proves this 

 dechictlon. In 1 197 A.D. an official remarked to the Throne that up to 

 1183 the charge for renewing a note (producing or printing a new note 

 to replace the old or castaway one) was 15 wen for each kwan of the 

 face value of the note, but that since 1183 A.D. the charge for the same 

 had come to be 8 wen for each note, no matter what the face value 

 might be. Whereupon, it was ordered by the Emperor that the charge 

 l)c 12 wen for each one kwan of the face value of the note. The note 

 in question bears the inscription outside the border "The printing 

 charge for every sheet (is) eight wen." (Extract from the original 

 text). 



