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10 Cents Kwangtung Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Kwangtung Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1934 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red with black vertical overprint signatures, the note centres its principal vignette at left — a junk under sail on open water, with trees and a building visible in the background. The composition is enclosed within a guilloche border frame characteristic of early Republican-era Chinese provincial issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | THE KWANGTUNG PROVINCIAL BANK PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND TEN CENTS 1934 10 |
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The Kwangtung Provincial Bank operated with considerable autonomy from the Nationalist central government throughout the early 1930s, backed by the political and military authority of the Guangdong regional power structure. This 10-cent fractional note reflects that independence — provincial banks in southern China regularly issued their own low-denomination currency to fill a gap the national coinage system chronically failed to plug.
The S-prefix Pick number places this firmly in the specialized provincial and commercial issues rather than the central government series, a distinction that matters for tracing regional monetary policy during a period when Nanjing's financial reach was genuinely limited.