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10 Yuan Kinmen
| Issuer | Bank of Taiwan |
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| Year | 1976 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Presidential Office Building in Taipei, the official seat of the President and Vice President of the Republic of China, rendered in an intaglio-style engraving. A black overprint carries the denomination and date inscription. The composition is flanked by the repeated Kinmen district notation. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 拾 金 金 門 門 版製年五十六國民華中 拾 10 (Translation: Ten Kinmen Year 65 of the Chinese Republic Ten) |
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The Kinmen (Quemoy) series was a parallel currency system maintained by the Bank of Taiwan specifically for the offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu, kept deliberately separate from the main Taiwan dollar to prevent arbitrage and control the flow of goods across a militarized zone. These notes were not legal tender on the Taiwan mainland and could not be freely exchanged — a hard currency barrier enforced at the strait.
The R112A designation places this within a restricted regional issue that persisted well into the late Cold War period, when Kinmen was still an active military garrison under martial law.