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10 Yuan Kwangtung Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Kwangtung Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 廣東省銀行 大洋票 拾圓 中華民國三十八年 中華書局股份有限公司 (Translation: Kwangtung Provincial Bank Dollar Note 10 Yuan (10 Dollars) 38th years of the Republic of China Chung Hwa Book Co. Ltd.) |
| Reverse description | Violet. Central vignette of a traditional Chinese government building — identified as the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Canton — rendered in fine intaglio engraving, flanked by elaborate scrollwork cartouches each bearing the numeral 10 and the word YUAN. Radiating guilloche lines form the background, with the bank title across the top and the denomination and date in a decorative panel at the foot. |
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The Kwangtung Provincial Bank had been issuing currency for decades by the time this note appeared in 1949, but the timing of this particular emission places it squarely in the final collapse of Nationalist control over Guangdong. The province fell to Communist forces in October of that year, rendering most late-issue Kwangtung Provincial Bank notes effectively worthless within months of printing.
Zhonghua Book Company — primarily a publisher and printer of textbooks — had taken on significant banknote work for various Chinese issuers during the Republican period. The Beijing facility printed this series, though Guangdong itself was over 2,000 kilometers to the south.