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100 Dollars New Fu-Tien Bank
| Issuer | New Fu-Tien Bank (Yunnan Province) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in rose-red on a cream ground, the obverse carries the bank title 雲南富滇新銀行 in a header cartouche across the top centre. A central rectangular vignette encloses a pastoral scene with horses, framed by intricate guilloche lacework and ornamental rosettes. Denomination panels reading 壹佰圓 appear in the left and right margins, with the date 民國十年 at the foot and two matching serial numbers in blue above the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in rose-red intaglio by the American Bank Note Company, whose imprint appears at the foot. The bank title THE NEW FU-TIEN BANK arcs across a top panel flanked by ornate scroll borders, with the promise clause PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND beneath it. The central field is occupied by an elaborate guilloche medallion surrounded by four lobed rosette panels each bearing the numeral 100, with ONE HUNDRED and ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS in bold lettering across the centre and foot respectively; a MANAGER signature line appears at the lower right. |
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The New Fu-Tien Bank was a regional institution operating out of Yunnan Province during one of the most fractious periods in Republican Chinese history, when provincial warlords effectively ran their own monetary systems independent of Peking. A 100 Dollar denomination from a provincial bank of this period implies local commercial ambition well beyond everyday transaction use — these were instruments of trade finance and inter-merchant settlement, not street currency.
ABNC's involvement is the key technical point here. The plate work came out of their New York shop, which accounts for the crisp intaglio quality that distinguishes these Yunnan issues from contemporaneous notes produced by smaller Asian presses. S3000 is a genuinely scarce survivor; Yunnan paper currency from the early Republican period was subject to repeated demonetizations as political control of the province changed hands through the 1920s.