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1 Jiao / 10 Cents
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Value | 1 Jiao = 10 Cents (0.1) |
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| Obverse lettering | 行分島青行銀央中 券幣輔圓銀 角壹 (Translation: Central Bank of China Qingdao Branch Silver Yuan Note One Jiao) |
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| Reverse lettering | THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA TEN CENTS TSINGTAO BRANCH 1949 |
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Pick 434 belongs to the final phase of Nationalist Chinese currency — issued in 1949 as the gold yuan system was already in freefall. The Central Bank of China was producing notes in an atmosphere of institutional collapse; hyperinflation had so thoroughly destroyed public confidence in paper that even small denominations like this were largely refused in trade or immediately discarded.
The Nationalists retreated to Taiwan that same year, and the bulk of remaining Central Bank stock was either abandoned on the mainland or destroyed. Survivors in any grade are genuinely scarce for that reason, not rarity of design but rarity of survival.