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100 Yuan Farmers Bank of China
| Issuer | Farmers Bank of China |
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| Year | 1941 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀民農國中 圓佰壹 印年十三國民華中 司公票鈔國美 (Translation: Farmers Bank of China One Hundred Yuan Printed in the 30th year of the Republic American Banknote Company) |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio view of a graceful high-arched stone bridge spanning a tranquil waterway, with a single oarsman in a small boat passing beneath and leafless trees lining the banks. Elaborate acanthus scroll work and guilloche panels flank the vignette on either side, with large numeral 100 counters at each corner and two manuscript signatures appearing below the denomination legend. The printer's imprint American Bank Note Company is set in small letterpress type at the very foot of the note. |
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The Farmers Bank of China — nominally an agricultural credit institution but functionally a central government bank under the Nationalist administration — relied heavily on ABNC throughout the wartime period, when Japanese occupation had severed access to domestic printing facilities of comparable quality. By 1941, Chongqing was the seat of the Nationalist government, and notes like this one entered an economy under severe inflationary pressure that would only worsen through the mid-1940s.
ABNC's intaglio work on this series is among the finer wartime Chinese output, though the quality of paper and ink varied between shipments crossing a Pacific increasingly hostile to Allied commerce.