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1 Fen Federal Reserve Bank, Peking
| Issuer | Federal Reserve Bank of China |
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| Year | 1941-1943 |
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| Thickness | 1.5 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀備準合聯國中 中 年十三國民華中 (Translation: United Reserve Bank of China Republic of China Year 30) |
| Reverse description | A detailed front-facing view of the Temple of Heaven (天壇) in Peking occupies the central field, depicted with its characteristic circular, tiered roof structure and raised marble terrace with a prominent central stairway. The denomination 壹 (one) appears to the right of the temple and 分 (fen) to the left, flanking the architectural motif. The rim is bordered by a continuous decorative key-pattern or Greek-fret inner border. |
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The Federal Reserve Bank of China was not a central bank in any conventional sense — it was a Japanese-controlled institution established in 1938 to administer currency in the occupied northern Chinese territories, including Peking, Tientsin, and their hinterlands. Its notes and coins were instruments of economic occupation, deliberately designed to displace the legal tender of the Nationalist government and drain real resources from the region. Aluminium was chosen for subsidiary coinage because Japanese wartime procurement had stripped copper and other base metals from civilian use entirely.