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1 Dollar Kwangtung Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Kwangtung Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Size | 135 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Red-toned note with an ornate guilloche border incorporating stylised floral corner medallions. To the left, a large circular underprint medallion carries the Chinese denomination character 壹圓 (One Yuan) at centre; to the right, an intaglio vignette within a decorative arched frame renders a riverside architectural scene. The bank title 廣東省銀行 is printed in red Chinese characters across the top, flanked on either side by the serial number, while two vertical columns of Chinese characters on the left and right margins carry the manuscript-style signatures of the issuing officials. |
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| Obverse lettering | 廣東省銀行 壹圓 副行長 行長 |
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The Kwangtung Provincial Bank operated as a regional institution under Guangdong provincial authority during a period when that province was effectively running its own monetary policy, semi-independent of Nanking. The 1936 date places this note in the last window before the Japanese invasion and the currency consolidation pressures of the late 1930s collapsed most provincial banking arrangements entirely.
ABNCo's involvement was typical for prestige Chinese provincial issues of this period — the New York plate work gave the notes a credibility that domestic printing could not yet reliably match. Whether they circulated widely in the Pearl River Delta or were quickly superseded is a question condition distribution in surviving collections has never cleanly answered.