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100 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Taiwan |
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| Year | 1937-1941 |
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| In circulation to | 1946 |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green and brown on a cream ground, the reverse carries a central vignette of a coastal landscape with a lighthouse on a distant headland and waves in the foreground, rendered in letterpress. To the right stands a tall intaglio palm tree in vivid green, contrasting with the brown scenic panel. An ornate guilloche border runs the full perimeter, with the Bank of Taiwan title in kanji across the top, the denomination 百圓 in a circular cartouche at left, the numeral 100 repeated in all four corners, and the word YEN inscribed in Latin script along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 券行銀灣臺 百 圓 YEN |
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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.