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10 Yuan / 10 Yan Ta Chiang Bank / Dagiang Inxang
| Issuer | Ta Chiang Bank (大江銀行) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 10 Yuan |
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| Obverse description | Teal-green intaglio print on a light ground, centred on a vignette of a single-arch stone bridge with a tree rising from the embankment at left. The bank title 大江銀行 is inscribed in Chinese characters across the upper margin, with the denomination 拾圓 repeated at the lower centre and right margin; two serial numbers flank the central vignette in the upper field. The date inscription 中華民國二十四年印 runs along the lower margin within a decorative border. |
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| Reverse description | Bicolour design in brown and pale green, dominated by a large ornate guilloche numeral '10' set within an elaborate cartouche of foliate and acanthus-leaf scrollwork. The romanised bank name DA GIAN GIN XANG appears in a straight banner across the top, the denomination numeral '10' is repeated in each upper corner, and the year 1945 is inscribed at the foot. The entire composition is enclosed within a lace-pattern border. |
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Ta Chiang Bank (大江銀行) was one of several regional banks operating under Japanese-sponsored administrations in occupied China during the final years of the war. By 1945, the broader currency system these banks supported was under severe strain — hyperinflationary pressures, military reverses, and the imminent collapse of Japanese control all contributed to notes being printed in large volumes with diminishing practical value.
The romanized rendering "Dagiang Inxang" on the note reflects an older Wade-Giles adjacent transliteration convention rather than any standardized system, a detail that occasionally confuses catalogers into treating it as a separate issuer.