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100 Yuan Bank of Pei Hai
| Issuer | Bank of Pei Hai (北海銀行) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress print on plain paper. The central vignette presents a busy harbour scene with a large ocean-going steamship moored at a quayside, a steam passenger train at dockside, and figures engaged in loading activity in the foreground. The bank title 北海銀行 appears across the upper border, with the denomination 壹百圓 at the right, and the issuing region 山東 at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Orange-red letterpress print. The central vignette shows a panoramic landscape with a traditional Chinese city gate or temple structure in the left foreground, a long fortified wall extending to the right, and a range of steep mountains rising in the background. Guilloche-patterned borders frame the note on all sides, with the numeral 100 repeated in the top border band and at each lower corner. The date 1945 appears in a cartouche at the bottom centre, flanked by two signature or authorisation inscriptions. |
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The Bank of Pei Hai was the currency authority of the Shandong-Jiasu Border Region, one of several Communist-administered areas operating their own financial systems during the later years of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Notes from this institution circulated alongside — and frequently in competition with — Japanese Military Yen and the puppet regime's Federal Reserve Bank issues, all three competing for legitimacy in the same contested territory.
1945 production for this issuer was disrupted by shifting front lines, and surviving examples from this year show considerable variation in paper quality and ink consistency. The Bank of Pei Hai was absorbed into the People's Bank of China at its founding in 1948.