Dollar (Jiaozhou Bay Leased Territory)

The dollar, sometimes distinguished in English as the Jiaozhou, Kiaochow, or Kiau Chau dollar and in German as the Kiautschou dollar, was the currency used by the German Empire's Jiaozhou Bay Leased Territory around Qingdao on the southeastern Shandong Peninsula. The dollar was divided into 100 cents. Dollar banknotes (1907–1914) and cent coins (1909) were issued by the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, pegged to the value of the silver Spanish or Mexican dollar and the Qing yuan. The dollar notes were issued in both German and English and supplemented by overprinting of silver dollar coins from other jurisdictions.

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