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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1090258, member: 12789&quot;]Those were the lowest denomination notes at the time they were printed and still being circulated - I think I read that there were a hundred of them to a penny.</p><p><br /></p><p>The lowest denomination notes I have used are 1 Jiao notes issued in China that were still being used when I was there in 2006, they were then worth about 1.4 US cents.&nbsp; Here is a 2 Jiao that I saved for my collection, this would be worth about 3 cents:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/china/china2jiao.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Chinese government is actively trying to get people to use coins instead of notes, but I noticed that in Guangzhou they seemed to prefer the notes - even if they were old and tattered.&nbsp; In Beijing I never got one of the small change notes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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