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100 Yuan Farmer's Bank of Chung-Chou
| Issuer | Farmer's Bank of Chung-Chou |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1912-1949) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a steam locomotive crossing a bridge or viaduct, set within a rectangular frame bordered by decorative columns. The bank title 中州農民銀行 (Farmer's Bank of Chung-Chou) is inscribed across the top in Chinese characters, with the denomination 壹百圓 (One Hundred Yuan) repeated in ornate cartouches to the left and right. Two red seal impressions appear in the lower portion, and the serial number is printed in red at upper left and upper right against a light guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in teal-green with a central oval vignette of a rural farmstead or country house surrounded by intricate guilloche lacework. The English bank title THE FARMERS BANK OF CHUNG-CHOU runs along the top border, with the denomination numerals 100 repeated at the upper corners and in bold lettering flanking the central vignette. The legend ONE HUNDRED YUAN appears in a panel at the bottom center, with two manuscript signatures and the date 1946 below. |
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The Farmer's Bank of Chung-Chou was a provincial institution operating in Henan, one of the most contested and repeatedly devastated provinces of the Second Sino-Japanese War. By 1946, the bank was issuing notes into a hyperinflationary environment that was already beyond recovery — the Nationalist government's postwar monetary collapse was accelerating rapidly, and provincial paper of this kind depreciated almost as fast as it could be printed.
High denominations from this issuer are among the more elusive of the provincial series. Henan's wartime destruction and the disruption of 1949 left few intact archives.