{"slug": "banknote", "label": "Banknote", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47433", "qid": "Q47433", "description": "form of physical currency made of paper or polymer", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [812, 1425], "span_label": ["812 CE", "1425 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "song-dynasty", "label": "Song dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ming-dynasty", "label": "Ming dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hongwu-emperor", "label": "Hongwu Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hangzhou", "label": "Hangzhou", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chengdu", "label": "Chengdu", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sichuan", "label": "Sichuan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 812, "year_label": "812 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Chinese government takes over the issuing of paper bank drafts, the ancestor of paper money.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345909676#Asia", "title": "812", "revid": 1345909676, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1024, "year_label": "1024 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Jiaozi, the world's first paper-printed money, which later greatly benefits the economy of the Song dynasty, originates in the Sichuan province of China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342213215#Asia", "title": "1024", "revid": 1342213215, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1085, "year_label": "1085 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "The output of copper currency for the Chinese Song dynasty reaches 6 billion coins a year, prompting the Chinese government to adopt the world's first paper-printed money later in the 1120s.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362159073#China", "title": "1085", "revid": 1362159073, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 1175, "year_label": "1175 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Chinese court establishes several government-paper money factories in the cities of Chengdu, Hangzhou and Huizhou. In Hangzhou alone a daily workforce of more than 1,000 men is employed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362172106#Asia", "title": "1175", "revid": 1362172106, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1384, "year_label": "1384 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 16", "text": "August 16 – The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China hears a case of a couple who tore paper money notes, while fighting over them. Under the law, this is considered an act of destroying stamped government documents, which is to be punished by a caning with a bamboo rod of 100 strokes. However, the Emperor decides to pardon them, on the grounds that it was unintentional.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369176313#July–September", "title": "1384", "revid": 1369176313, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1425, "year_label": "1425 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "By this year, paper currency in China is worth only 0.025% to 0.014% of its original value in the 14th century; this, and the counterfeiting of copper coin currency, will lead to a dramatic shift to using silver as the common medium of exchange in China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360580047#Date_unknown", "title": "1425", "revid": 1360580047, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}