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100 Yuan Tung Pei Bank of China
| Issuer | Tung Pei Bank of China |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red-violet and black, the obverse carries a central vignette of a classical Chinese pavilion with a surrounding garden and waterway in the middle ground. The bank name 東北銀行 (Tung Pei Bank of China) is inscribed in large characters across the top, with the serial number prefix NO.BH and numeral series to the upper corners. The denomination 壹百圓 (One Hundred Yuan) appears in bold characters to the right, with the Republican calendar date inscription at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red, the reverse is dominated by a large guilloche underprint bearing the numeral denomination "100" at center, flanked on the left and right by the Chinese characters 百圓. The English inscriptions "TUNG PEI BANK OF CHINA" and "ONE HUNDRED YUAN" are rendered in letterpress across the upper and lower portions respectively, framed by an ornate border of repeating geometric and foliate patterns. |
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The Tung Pei Bank of China was a regional Communist-controlled institution operating in Manchuria, established after Soviet forces withdrew following Japan's defeat. Its notes circulated in a zone where Nationalist and Communist forces were actively contesting control, and the 1946 issues were produced under genuinely unstable conditions — the bank's operational territory shifted with front lines.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this among specialized regional issues, and the Tung Pei series is notably absent from many Western collections simply because so little crossed out of northeastern China during and after the civil war period.