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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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| Value | 1 Fen (0.01) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red on cream paper and centres on a symmetrical guilloche composition of three interlocking floral rosettes, the central one bearing the denomination characters 壹分 and flanked by numeral 1 devices. The bank name THE AMOY INDUSTRIAL BANK is lettered in bold serif capitals across the top of the note, above the decorative underprint. |
| Reverse lettering | THE AMOY INDUSTRIAL BANK 壹分 |
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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.