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1 Yuan / Dollar Bank of China
| Issuer | Bank of China |
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| Year | 1930 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Temple of Heaven set within an oval frame, flanked symmetrically on either side by large Chinese characters reading 壹圓 (One Yuan) within ornate cartouches and guilloche rosettes in red and green underprint. The bank title 中國銀行 appears at the top in Chinese script, with the branch designation 廈門 (Amoy) printed at lower left and right, and two manuscript signatures appear at the bottom alongside printed title designations. |
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| Obverse lettering | 行银国中 壹 圓 壹圆兑通银 付用圆 厦门 (Translation: Bank of China One Yuan / Amoy branch / Local Currency One Dollar Exchange) |
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The Bank of China's 1930 dollar notes were printed by the American Bank Note Company during a period when the bank was actively restructuring its foreign operations and expanding its role as China's designated foreign exchange institution — a status formalized by the Nationalist government in 1928. ABNC held long-standing contracts with Chinese institutions and produced multiple concurrent series for different issuing banks, which has led to persistent collector confusion between superficially similar dollar-denomination notes of the period.
Pick 67 exists in several regional overprint variants, issued for specific branch cities. Those overprints significantly affect scarcity — some branch issues survive in very small numbers, while Shanghai-payable examples are comparatively common.