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1 Chiao Kwangsi Bank
| Issuer | Kwangsi Bank |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Printer | Hong Kong Xinhua Engraving Co., Ltd. |
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| Obverse lettering | 廣西銀行 壹角 通用輔幣 香港新華雕刻有限公司 (Translation: Kwangsi Bank 1 Chiao (10 Cents) General Circulating Currency Hong Kong Xinhua Engraving Co., Ltd.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in red on a yellow-orange underprint. The design is composed entirely of typographic and guilloche elements, with the bank title 廣西銀行 at the top, the denomination 壹角 at right and lower left, and 通用輔幣 in the central panel flanked by ornate rosette guilloche motifs at left and right. Four corner rosettes repeat the denomination, and the issue authority inscription appears along the lower margin. |
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Kwangsi Bank was a provincial institution operating under the Guangxi clique — the regional warlord power base of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi — which maintained considerable financial autonomy from the Nationalist government in Nanjing well into the late 1930s. This note was issued the same year Chiang Kai-shek finally negotiated the nominal military integration of Guangxi forces, a political compromise that left provincial banking structures largely untouched.
The Hong Kong Xinhua Engraving Co. handled a significant volume of southern Chinese provincial printing during this period, serving issuers who preferred proximity and discretion over the larger Shanghai security printers.