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1 New Dollar Chiang Kai-shek
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1966 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination 壹圓 (One Yuan) is prominently displayed in large Chinese characters at the center of the field. A circular legend surrounds the periphery reading 中華民國五十五年十月三十一日 (Republic of China, Year 55, October 31st), commemorating the precise date of the President's birthday. The design is simple and unadorned, with the denomination forming the sole central device. |
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| Reverse lettering | 圓壹 日一十三月十年五十五國民華中 (Translation: One Dollar Republic of China, October 31st year 55) |
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This issue belongs to the post-retreat coinage of the Republic of China government on Taiwan, which relocated to the island in 1949 following the Communist victory on the mainland. The Central Bank of China — pointedly retaining that name rather than adopting any Taiwan-specific identity — continued issuing coinage under the fiction of a government-in-exile with legitimate claim to all of China, a political posture that shaped every institutional decision through the 1960s and beyond.
The copper-nickel composition adopted for this series replaced earlier silver-bearing alloys as Taiwan's postwar economy stabilized under U.S. aid programs.