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100 Yen = 100 Won
| Issuer | Bank of Chosun (朝鮮銀行) |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Value | 100 Yen |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Kim Yoon-shik in traditional Korean dress and official hat at right, with a large guilloche rosette underprint at centre bearing the Chinese character 百圓 (100 Yen). Bank seal in red at lower centre, series prefix (5A) above. Bank title 朝鮮銀行券 in Chinese characters across top. |
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| Reverse description | Uniform salmon-red letterpress design with floral and scroll borders. Central panel carries the denomination 百圓 in Chinese characters, flanked by rosette guilloche medallions. Numeral 100 repeated in upper corners and lower cartouche; bank title 朝鮮銀行 inscribed across upper field. |
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The Bank of Chosun continued operating briefly after Japan's surrender in August 1945, issuing notes denominated simultaneously in both yen and won — a dual designation that reflects the unresolved monetary transition as Japanese colonial currency was being phased out. This particular issue falls squarely in that liminal period, before the eventual split between the US-administered south and Soviet-administered north hardened into permanent separate monetary systems.
The institution itself was liquidated by 1950, its functions absorbed by the Bank of Korea upon the Republic's establishment.