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10 Yuan Bank of China
| Issuer | Bank of China |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Size | 156 × 80 mm |
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| Obverse description | Red on multicolour underprint, with a central intaglio oval vignette of Sun Yat-sen set within an elaborate scrollwork frame flanked by symmetrical guilloche cartouches bearing the denomination characters 拾圓 in red. Blue serial numbers appear in the upper left and upper right fields, and two facsimile signatures are printed at the lower left and lower right beneath the title designations GENERAL MANAGER and MANAGER respectively. The date inscription 中華民國三十年印 appears on a tablet below the central portrait. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF CHINA TEN YUAN 1941 DAH TUNG BOOK CO.,LTD. |
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The Bank of China's 1941 issues were produced in Hong Kong specifically because Japanese occupation of the Chinese mainland had made domestic printing untenable. Dah Tung Book Co. was one of several Hong Kong printers pressed into service for Chinese government-affiliated institutions during this period, handling work that Shanghai and Chungking could no longer safely manage.
Hong Kong itself fell to Japan on 25 December 1941 — Christmas Day — meaning notes from this year may have been printed and shipped under increasingly urgent conditions, or simply never reached their intended circulation at all.