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10 Yuan Bank of China
| Issuer | Bank of China |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1912-1948) |
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| Obverse description | A central portrait vignette of Sun Yat-sen is set within an elaborate guilloche underprint, flanked by vertical Chinese inscriptions giving the bank name and denomination, with serial number panels positioned above and below the portrait and numeral value repeated in the corner ornaments. The upper field carries the bank name in Chinese characters, while the lower margin bears the Chinese date inscription corresponding to Republic of China Year 30. The design is executed in a refined intaglio style consistent with American Bank Note Company production. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF CHINA TEN TEN YUAN 1941 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. |
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The Bank of China's 1941 series was printed in New York by the American Bank Note Company under unusual wartime circumstances — by this point, Japanese forces controlled much of coastal China, and the Nationalist government's financial apparatus was increasingly dependent on foreign printing to maintain credible currency production. The ABNC relationship with Chinese institutions stretched back decades, and the quality of the intaglio work on these notes was markedly superior to anything being produced domestically at the time.
Getting printed notes from New York into Free China meant routing shipments through Burma or over the Hump — overland and air corridors that were neither safe nor reliable. A portion of each print run never arrived.