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1 Yuan Central Bank of China
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Size | 151 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Sun Yat-sen at left, rendered in fine engraved detail against a light ground. A large multicolored guilloche rosette in red, green, orange, and blue occupies the centre, with the denomination characters 壹圓 superimposed in bold black. The border is formed by an ornate red letterpress frame with floral corner medallions bearing the denomination character 壹, and the bank title 中央銀行 is printed in large characters at the top. |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Sun Yat-sen. |
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The Central Bank of China's 1936 1 Yuan series was printed by De La Rue in London during a period when Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government was consolidating monetary authority under a single central bank — a process formalized only two years earlier with the 1935 currency reform that abolished the silver standard and established the fabi as legal tender.
De La Rue held the contract through the late 1930s, but production of Chinese government notes shifted abruptly after 1941 when wartime conditions made London supply lines untenable. Notes from this 1936 series that entered circulation in coastal cities were frequently encountered alongside competing Japanese military scrip after 1937.