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1 Yuan Bank of West Shantung
| Issuer | Bank of West Shantung |
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| Year | 29 (1940) |
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| Value | 1 Yuan |
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| Obverse lettering | 壹 - 壹 行銀西魯 壹 圓 壹國即憑 圓幣付票 印年九十二國民華中 壹 - 壹 (Translation: 1 (Yuan) - 1 (Yuan) Bank of West Shantung 1 Yuan Pay 1 Yuan in national currency on presentation of this voucher Printed in Year 29 of the Republic of China 1 (Yuan) - 1 (Yuan)) |
| Reverse description | Printed in green-grey tones, the reverse centres on a vignette of a traditional Chinese ceremonial gate at the end of a broad paved approach, flanked by trees. Circular guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral "1" appear at left and right. The bank name arches across the top and the denomination is inscribed along the lower border. |
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The Bank of West Shantung was a Japanese puppet institution established in occupied Shandong province during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Its notes functioned as occupation currency, displacing the fabi issued by the Nationalist government and channeling local economic activity through Japanese-controlled financial infrastructure.
Year 29 corresponds to the 29th year of the Republic of China calendar — a dating convention the puppet authorities retained, though the irony of using Republican chronology on occupation paper was presumably lost on no one.