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100 Dollars Kwangtung Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Kwangtung Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | The bank name "THE PROVINCIAL BANK OF KWANG TUNG PROVINCE" appears in bold lettering across the top, above an elaborate symmetrical guilloche design with three large interlocking rosettes. The denomination "100" is rendered in large numerals at center and within the flanking rosettes, with "ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS" in full across the lower panel; the printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Company, New York, appears at the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | THE PROVINCIAL BANK OF KWANG TUNG PROVINCE 壹 One 百 100 100 100 Hundred 圓 Dollars CANTON PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND JAN. 1ˢᵗ 1918 100 ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK. |
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The Kwangtung Provincial Bank was established in 1905 as part of the Qing dynasty's late push to modernize provincial finance, and it survived the 1911 revolution largely intact, continuing to issue notes under the new Republican administration in Guangdong. By 1918 the province was operating as a semi-autonomous power base, and high-denomination notes like this one functioned more as instruments of institutional credit than everyday currency.
ABNC printed the full Kwangtung provincial series from New York — a common arrangement for Chinese provincial banks of the period, who prized American engraving for its perceived resistance to local counterfeiting. The 100-dollar face value made this among the largest circulating denominations in the series.