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1 Yuan / Dollar Bank of China

Issuer Bank of China
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.

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