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10 Yuan Bank of China
| Issuer | Bank of China |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Size | 172 × 81 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sun Yat-sen in an oval vignette at left, rendered in intaglio against an intricate guilloche underprint in red and blue tones. The bank title 中國銀行 is inscribed in large Chinese characters at top centre, with the denomination 拾圓 displayed in a central ornate cartouche surrounded by elaborate lathe-work. Two facsimile signatures appear at the lower centre beneath title designations "GENERAL MANAGER" and "MANAGER", with the Republican year inscription 中華民國二十九年 at the bottom centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF CHINA 10 TEN YUAN 1940 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. |
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The Bank of China's 1940 series was printed in New York by the American Bank Note Company during a period when Japanese military advances had severely disrupted the Nationalist government's printing capacity on the mainland. ABNC continued producing Chinese government and bank notes throughout the Pacific War years, with shipments routed through increasingly complicated wartime logistics.
Pick 85 is one of the more frequently encountered notes from this ABNC contract, though examples with strong color retention are less common — the inks on this series are known to fade with exposure.