100 Yuan Bank of Chang Chung

The Bank of Chang Chung was a short-lived regional institution operating in Manchuria under Soviet-backed administration following the 1945 Japanese surrender. Its notes circulated in an occupied zone where currency authority was genuinely contested — the Nationalist government never recognized them, and they were effectively rendered obsolete once the People's Liberation Army consolidated control of the northeast and began introducing its own monetary instruments in 1948.

Pick S3050 falls in the "S" series, denoting its regional rather than national status in the standard catalog classification. Surviving examples are not common; the political volatility of the region and the speed of the transition meant most notes either circulated heavily or were discarded during successive currency reforms.