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100 Yuan Bank of Central China
| Issuer | Bank of Central China (中華中銀行) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 100 Yuan |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print. The central motif is a guilloche rosette bearing the numeral 100 in bold figures, enclosed within an ornate lozenge-shaped border. To the right, a detailed landscape vignette renders a hilltop tower and temple complex above a stone bridge, executed in fine engraved style. The date 1945 appears in a cartouche below the central rosette, with repeating 100 numerals forming a decorative band along the upper and lower borders. |
| Reverse lettering | 100 1945 |
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The Bank of Central China was a Communist-controlled institution operating in the liberated base areas during the latter stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Its notes circulated in territories administered by the New Fourth Army and affiliated regional governments — areas that were simultaneously contested by Japanese forces and Nationalist units, meaning this currency operated in genuinely hostile monetary conditions.
Pick S3376 falls into the "S" (Specialized/Regional) section precisely because these notes were never recognized by the central Republican government in Chongqing. Redemption after 1949 was handled through People's Bank conversion programs, and large quantities were surrendered and pulped, which has made surviving circulated examples considerably harder to find than their print runs might suggest.