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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debwests, post: 917522, member: 20344&quot;]Wow, it looks the same almost.sorry <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Wrong pic, here is a 1934 that looks like it, but I couldn&#039;t find a 1933.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After the unification of China in 1929, the Nationalists issued silver dollars with Sun Yat-sen&#039;s portrait on the obverse and a reverse showing a Chinese junk sailing right.&nbsp; Beforehand a number of patterns were commissioned from Japan, Italy, Austria, the USA and Britain.&nbsp; These are easily distinguished from those issued as currency because the junk is shown sailing to the left.&nbsp; In 1932 the KMT Ministry of Finance announced that the Sun Yat-sen dollar was now the official currency and brought out a new design which showed birds flying over the junk and, more ominously, a rising sun on the right.&nbsp; The coins were unpopular because they seemed to offer support for the Japanese, so the KMT was quickly forced to change the design, omitting both the birds and the rising sun.&nbsp; Rising inflation led the KMT eventually to forbid the circulation of silver dollars in 1935 in favour of a paper currency.&nbsp; The reckless issue of paper money by the Nationalists during the war with Japan triggered off massive inflation and silver dollars were freely traded again because of the lack of public confidence in other money. When the Communists took over in 1949 all silver dollars were recalled and formed no part of the currency during the People&#039;s Republic.</p><p><a href="http://javascript&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;:;" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://javascript&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;:;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.zeno.ru/data/2021/medium/dollar_1934.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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