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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Provincial Bank of the Three Eastern Provinces |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, United States |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note with a predominance of red and grey tones, centred on a vignette of the Shanyin Dian (Shanyin Hall) tower, framed within an intricate guilloche border with denomination numerals at the corners. The issuing bank name appears in both Chinese and English across the upper register, with additional Chinese characters indicating the face value. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red on a pale ground, the reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche rosette composed of interlocking foliate scrollwork, with Chinese characters 拾圓 to the left and the numeral '10' with 'TEN DOLLARS' to the right. A framed text panel at the lower centre contains the redemption clause, flanked by serial numbers at either side, with the date '1st. January 1924' below and the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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The Provincial Bank of the Three Eastern Provinces — Fengtian, Jilin, and Heilongjiang — was a regional institution operating under the warlord administration of Zhang Zuolin, whose control over Manchuria in the 1920s made him effectively independent of the Beijing government. Notes like this one circulated in an economy where provincial and military currencies routinely competed with central government issues, and public trust in any given note depended largely on the political fortunes of whoever was backing it.
Zhang Zuolin's assassination by Japanese Kwantung Army officers in June 1928 destabilized the entire regional financial apparatus, and the bank's note issues were wound down as his son Zhang Xueliang realigned Manchuria toward Nationalist China.
The ABNC plate work is identifiable in surviving examples by the fine engine-turning typical of New York security printing contracts of that decade.