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10 Cents Kiangsi Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Kiangsi Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1912-1949) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on plain paper, the obverse is framed by a fine guilloche border with ornamental corner flourishes and vertical denomination inscriptions (壹角) along both side margins. The central vignette consists of an elaborate oval guilloche medallion bearing the large Chinese characters 壹銀角 (One Silver Jiao), surrounded by floral rosettes. Above the medallion, the bank title 江西省銀行 (Kiangsi Provincial Bank) and the auxiliary currency legend 輔幣務 are printed in bold Chinese characters; two red serial numbers flank the central text, and two red official seals appear in the lower left and right corners. Below the medallion, fine Chinese text states the redemption terms and the date of issue, Republic of China Year 38, Month 7. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse carries a bold letterpress heading THE KIANGSI PROVINCIAL BANK across the upper panel. The central design consists of a large guilloche numeral 10 overlaid by an ornate floral lozenge, with a horizontal cartouche inscribed TEN CENTS at the centre. Symmetrical lathe-work globe rosettes occupy the left and right fields, and the four corners each bear the numeral 10 in diagonal cartouches. The year 1949 appears in a rectangular frame at the lower centre, and a Chinese printer's imprint 江西合群印刷廠製 is printed below the outer border. |
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Kiangsi Provincial Bank issued paper currency deep into 1949 — a year when the People's Liberation Army was systematically taking provincial capitals across China and Nationalist-linked institutions were scrambling to maintain any semblance of monetary function. By May 1949, Nanchang had fallen. Notes printed that year by the Kiangsi United Printing Works were, in many cases, issued into a collapsing economy and quickly rendered worthless by the incoming Communist administration's currency unification under the renminbi.
The Kiangsi United Printing Works was a provincial facility, not one of the major commercial printers, which accounts for the modest production quality typical of this series.