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10 Yuan Tung Pei Bank of China, brown
| Issuer | Tung Pei Bank of China (東北銀行) |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 東北銀行 拾圓 遼東 拾 |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red on a dense lathe-work guilloche background, the reverse carries the English bank name BANK OF DUNG BAI in an arched panel at the top. The denomination TEN YUAN is set within a central ornate cartouche flanked by the numeral 10 at left and right. The year 1945 appears in a small panel at the bottom centre, with elaborate scrollwork and floral ornaments filling the field. |
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The Tung Pei Bank of China — literally the Northeast Bank — was established by the Chinese Communist Party in 1945 to assert financial control over Manchuria following the Soviet expulsion of Japanese forces. This note belongs to the earliest emission period, when the bank was still consolidating authority across a region whose existing currency infrastructure had been built around Japanese military scrip and Manchukuo yuan. The immediate task was replacement, not gradual transition.
Pick S3729 falls within a series where printing quality and paper stock varied considerably between batches, a consequence of using whatever facilities were available in newly captured territory rather than a dedicated security printer.