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100 Yuan Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 100 Yuan |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red-brown on white paper in vertical format. A vignette of a traditional Chinese temple gateway occupies the upper portion of the note, rendered in fine letterpress. The denomination 壹百圓 (One Hundred Yuan) appears in a guilloche cartouche at centre-lower, with the bank name 冀南銀行 inscribed at the top in Chinese characters and a serial number prefix and red official seals at the base. |
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| Obverse lettering | 冀南銀行 壹百圓 |
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The Bank of Chinan (齊南銀行) was established under Japanese-sponsored administration in Shandong Province, one of several regional puppet banks set up to manage occupied territories and displace Nationalist and Communist currency. The 1942 date places this note squarely within the period of intensified Japanese economic integration of northern China, when puppet bank issues were used deliberately to drain commodity resources and suppress locally trusted currencies.
S-prefix Pick numbers indicate this as a "special" or regional issue — the classification itself reflects how outside the mainstream banking structure these wartime instruments were. Survival rates vary considerably; Shandong saw heavy post-war currency purges.