1 Chiao - Puyi Datong

Manchukuo was a Japanese puppet state installed in 1932, and its Central Bank was established not to serve a Manchurian economy but to facilitate Japanese extraction of the region's industrial and agricultural resources. Puyi, the last Qing emperor, was installed as chief executive — later "emperor" — lending a fiction of dynastic legitimacy to what was effectively a colonial financial apparatus. The Datong era lasted only two years before it was renamed Kangde in 1934, making coins bearing that reign title a short production window.