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1 Yuan Bank of Hopei
| Issuer | Bank of Hopei (河北省銀行) |
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| Year | 1934 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1895-1949) |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀省北河 圓壹 圓壹幣國付即券憑 印年三廿國民華中 (Translation: Hopeh Province Bank One Yuan To pay by this note one yuan national currency Printed year 23 of the Chinese Republic) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF HOPEI 圓 1 壹 YUAN PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND ONE YUAN LOCAL CURRENCY TIENTSIN 1934 |
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The Bank of Hopei was a provincial institution operating under the Nationalist government's increasingly fractious financial architecture of the early 1930s. By 1934, Hopei province sat uncomfortably close to Japanese-controlled Manchuria, and the bank's notes circulated in a region where competing currencies — Japanese military scrip, Manchukuo notes, and Central Bank of China issues — all jostled for acceptance. Provincial credibility mattered enormously in that environment.
Printed in Tientsin, which by this period housed a substantial concentration of foreign concessions and competing financial institutions. The city's printers had long experience with security printing for northern Chinese issuers, though the technical quality of provincial notes from this facility was uneven across the decade.