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100 Yuan Tung Pei Bank of China
| Issuer | Tung Pei Bank of China |
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| Year | 1946 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 東北銀行 壹百圓 流通券 民國三十五年 |
| 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.