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100 Yuan Bank of Kirin, blue
| Issuer | Bank of Kirin |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1949-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress print on a red-orange wave-pattern underprint. A vignette to the left center shows a traditional Chinese pavilion or gate set among trees, with a mountainous backdrop rendered in fine line engraving. To the right, the denomination 壹百圓 is displayed within an ornate cartouche flanked by decorative scrollwork, with two seal impressions below; the bank title 吉林省銀行 appears across the top alongside the serial number prefix and number, with the date inscription 民國三十五年 along the bottom border. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red. The central composition presents three interlocking guilloche medallions: the left medallion contains a landscape vignette with a river and distant buildings, the center medallion carries the large numeral '100', and the right medallion contains a further architectural vignette. The legend BANK OF KIRIN is inscribed within a curved banner at the top, flanked by elaborate acanthus-scroll borders, with ONE HUNDRED YUAN in Roman letters and the year 1946 in a framed cartouche at the foot of the note. |
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The Bank of Kirin (Jilin) was one of several regional banks operating under the Nationalist government's orbit in Manchuria immediately after Japan's surrender in August 1945. The 1946 emission came during an extremely unstable period — Soviet forces had stripped much of the region's industrial infrastructure before withdrawing, and competing Nationalist and Communist forces were actively contesting Jilin province. Notes like this circulated in genuinely chaotic conditions, and their survival in any meaningful grade reflects how little time they had before the area changed hands.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference indicates provincial or semi-official status — this was not a central government note, and its acceptance was geographically constrained from the outset.