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100 Coppers
| Issuer | Ssuchuan Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Value | 100 Coppers |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with an ornate guilloche border enclosing two oval vignettes, each containing a detailed engraving of a traditional Chinese pagoda. A central floral underprint rosette separates the two vignettes, above which appears the bank title in Chinese characters within a curved cartouche. Vertical Chinese inscriptions appear in the left and right margins, with the denomination stated in Chinese script at centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | SSUCHUAN PROVINCIAL BANK. Promises to Pay the Bearer on Demand at its ONE HUNDRED COPPER COINS Office here, Local Currency value received. March, 1924 |
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The Ssuchuan Provincial Bank operated during one of the most chaotic periods in Sichuan's modern history — the province was effectively carved up among competing warlord factions through the 1920s, with local military commanders issuing their own currencies and undermining any attempt at monetary stability. Provincial bank notes circulated alongside dozens of rival issues, and public confidence in all of them was fragile.
The copper-unit denomination places this note in a transitional moment: copper cash denominations on paper were becoming a practical necessity as actual copper coinage grew scarce and debased under warlord mismanagement. P#S2808 is seldom encountered in any grade.