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10 Dollars Provincial Bank of Kwangsi
| Issuer | Provincial Bank of Kwangsi |
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| Year | 18 (1929) |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a scenic river landscape with a distinctive karst rock formation, flanked by guilloche panels bearing the denomination in Chinese characters 拾圓. Bank title 廣西省銀行 runs along the top in Chinese, with red seal impressions at lower left and right corners. Underprint in red with intricate lathe-work patterns. |
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| Obverse lettering | 廣西省銀行 拾 圓 通貨常 中華民國十八年 柳州 |
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The Provincial Bank of Kwangsi was a regional institution operating out of one of southern China's more politically turbulent provinces during the warlord period. Kwangsi — modern Guangxi — was controlled through the late 1920s by the Guangxi Clique, a militarist faction that maintained unusual cohesion and autonomy from both the Nationalist government in Nanjing and rival warlords elsewhere. Provincial paper of this period was frequently rejected or heavily discounted outside the issuing region.
The American Bank Note Company contract placed the printing firmly in New York. ABNC handled numerous Chinese provincial commissions during this period, and their security printing standards were considerably higher than most notes actually deserved given the political shelf life of the institutions ordering them.