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10 Yuan
| Issuer | Hunan Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1928 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1897-1949) |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned note centred on a vignette of a multi-storey classical government building enclosed within an ornate guilloche frame. Large rosette panels to the left and right carry the vertical Chinese characters 拾圓 (Ten Yuan), while the bank name 湖南省銀行 runs vertically along the upper centre between serial number panels at the upper corners. Chinese inscriptions denoting denomination and currency type are arranged along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 湖南省銀行 拾圓 憑票即國幣付票拾圓 |
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The Hunan Provincial Bank was one of dozens of provincial institutions issuing their own currency during the warlord period, when central monetary authority in China had effectively collapsed. By 1928, Hunan had passed through the hands of multiple military factions within a few years, and the notes issued under provincial bank names frequently outlasted — or predated — whatever government nominally backed them.
P#S1953 is cataloged in the Shànghai section of Spink's Chinese references, though Hunan provincial issues of this period were often printed by lithographic firms in Shanghai regardless of the issuing authority's location. Distinguishing the actual printer requires examination of marginal imprints specific to the individual note.