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| Emittent | Central Bank of China |
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| Jahr | 1949 |
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| Druckerei | Chung Hwa Book Co. Ltd. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | A central vignette presents a steel truss railway bridge over a river busy with sailing vessels and small craft, rendered in fine intaglio line work in brown. The denomination 1000000 appears in large numerals in each corner, and the legend ONE MILLION GOLD YUAN is set in bold letterpress at the bottom centre below the bridge scene. The printer's imprint CHUNG HWA BOOK CO. LTD. appears at the foot of the note. |
| Rückseitenlegende | THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA ONE MILLION GOLD YUAN 1949 CHUNG HWA BOOK CO. LTD. |
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| Anmerkungen |
By mid-1949, the Nationalist government's gold yuan reform had already collapsed, and the Central Bank of China was printing denominations that would have been unthinkable two years earlier. This one-million yuan note was part of the final hyperinflationary cascade — the gold yuan itself, introduced in August 1948 as a supposed stabilizing currency, lost virtually all value within months, forcing the issuance of ever-larger denominations before the Nationalist retreat to Taiwan effectively ended mainland operations.
Chung Hwa Book Co. had been printing currency and official documents in Shanghai for decades, but by this point the presses were racing against economic collapse rather than serving any functional monetary purpose.