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100 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Taiwan |
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| Year | 1937-1941 |
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| Value | 100 Yen |
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| Reverse lettering | 券行銀灣臺 百 圓 YEN |
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| Variants | P#1928a - Issued note P#1928s1 - Specimen P#1928s2 - Specimen with normal serial # |
| Comments |
The Bank of Taiwan functioned as the central bank for Japan's Taiwan colony and also served as the primary instrument of Japanese financial expansion into southern China and Southeast Asia — a role that made its larger-denomination notes politically significant well beyond the island itself. By the late 1930s, the bank was actively financing Japanese military and commercial operations across the region, and 100 Yen notes of this period circulated in occupied territories alongside the Taiwan Dollar as a tool of economic penetration.
The Cabinet Printing Bureau (内閣印刷局) was the prestige government press; its involvement here was standard for high-denomination colonial currency of this period, not a mark of special status.