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1 Yuan / Dollar Bank of China
| Issuer | Bank of China |
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| Year | 1930 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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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) |
| Reverse description | Entirely engraved in green ink, the reverse is dominated by three large interlocking guilloche rosettes of differing sizes arranged horizontally across the centre, surrounded by intricate lathe-work borders. The legend BANK OF CHINA appears at the top, with ONE DOLLAR · LOCAL CURRENCY in a central panel at the foot, flanked by the numeral 1 in each corner. The branch name AMOY and the date OCTOBER 1930 are printed at the lower centre, with the imprint of the American Bank Note Company at the very bottom. |
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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.