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100 Yuan Bank of Communications
| Issuer | Bank of Communications |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a steam locomotive crossing a steel trestle railway bridge over a river landscape, engraved in intaglio with fine guilloche underprint in pale green and yellow tones. The bank title 交通銀行 appears in large Chinese characters across the top, with the denomination 壹百圓 repeated in the four corners and flanking the central vignette. A decorative border of interlocking scrollwork frames the entire face, with the date inscription 中華民國三十年印 set beneath the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a steam passenger locomotive at a station platform, with figures of workers or passengers at lower left, rendered in detailed intaglio engraving against a fine guilloche background in purple and violet tones. The denomination numeral 100 appears in large bold figures at each corner within ornate scroll cartouches. The bank title in English and the denomination legend are set in a cartouche at the bottom centre, flanked by facsimile signatures, with the date 1941 and the printer's imprint below. |
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| Signature(s) | Y. M. Chien and T. S. Wong |
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