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10 Yuan Kwangtung Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Kwangtung Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1912-1949) |
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| Obverse description | Violet on light blue underprint. Intaglio portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in an oval vignette at left, set within an ornate floral guilloche border. The large denomination character 拾圓 appears in a central cartouche flanked by 大洋票 panels, with the bank title 廣東省銀行 across the top and the Republican era date along the lower margin. |
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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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