Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — The Oldest Bank Note. [ARTICLE]

The Oldest Bank Note.

Among the curiosities obtained by the British Aluscum there is uone’so interesting as a Chinese bank note of the Ming dynasty, about 13(58. No earlier example is known to be extant. It is. however, a comparatively modem spreimca for Cilia, although it was not till three hundred years after its issue that bunk notes were used iu Europe.—[Notes and Queries.