Catalog
1 Dollar The Futien Bank
| Issuer | The New Futien Bank (Yunnan Fu Tien New Bank) |
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| Year | 18 (1929) |
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| Currency | Yuan (1908-1949) |
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| Obverse lettering | 壹 行銀新滇富南雲 壹 銀 ————— 憑 圓 壹——-壹 票 壹 圓——-圓 即 圓 ————— 付 壹 年八十國民 壹 (Translation: One Yunnan New Futien Bank One Silver 1 yuan one yuan Pay on demand One Republic 18th year One) |
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| Reverse lettering | THE NEW FUTIEN BANK PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND No. No. K045718 K045718 ONE MANAGER ONE DOLLAR AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. |
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The Futien Bank was a Yunnan provincial institution operating under the financial apparatus of Long Yun's warlord government, which controlled the province with considerable autonomy from Nanjing throughout the late Republican period. The "New" Futien Bank reorganized an earlier predecessor in 1929, and this dollar note — issued in the same year as the reorganization — represents the earliest emissions of the reconstituted institution.
ABNC's involvement was commercially motivated rather than diplomatic; Yunnan's de facto independence made direct contracting with American security printers entirely feasible, bypassing central government channels entirely.