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1 Fen The Amoy Industrial Bank
| Issuer | The Amoy Industrial Bank |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1655 |
| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on cream paper, the obverse carries a vignette of the lakeside pavilion in Zhongshan Park, Xiamen, set to the left within a decorative guilloche border. To the right, the denomination 壹分 appears within an ornate floral guilloche cartouche. The bank title 廈門勸業銀行 is inscribed along the upper panel, with a small rectangular chop seal visible in the lower centre of the vignette area. |
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| Obverse lettering | 廈門勸業銀行 壹分 (Translation: The Amoy Industrial Bank 1 Fen (1 Cent)) |
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The Amoy Industrial Bank was a Japanese-sponsored institution established during the occupation of Xiamen (Amoy) following the city's fall in May 1938. Its notes were instruments of wartime economic control, intended to displace Chinese national currency and fund the occupation apparatus under the guise of local banking. The 1 Fen denomination sat at the absolute bottom of the scale — practical change currency for a population that had little else.
Pick S1655 is among the smallest-format notes in the entire Chinese wartime puppet bank series.