Foreign currencies
 
        Along with the development of foreign trade, foreign silver dollars began to circulate in China from the mid-Ming.After the Opium War,foreign banks appeared in China.The Oriental Bank,the Mercantile Bank and the Chartered Bank of India , Australian Bank as well as China's banks started to release their own paper notes in China after A.D. 1845.
 
 
Copyright©2003 ShanghaiMuseum.net