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1000 Yuan
| Issuer | Central Bank of Manchukuo |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Size | 180 × 105 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green tones and centers on an intaglio vignette of the neoclassical headquarters building of the Central Bank of Manchou in Hsinking (present-day Changchun), framed within an elaborate guilloche border with scrollwork cartouches. Large numeral denominators '1000' appear on both the left and right sides of the central vignette. The bank title in Chinese characters arcs above the building vignette, and a decorative star emblem appears at the top center. |
| Reverse lettering | 1000 行銀央中洲滿 1000 (Translation: Central Bank of Manchou.) |
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Manchukuo's currency system was administered under tight Japanese oversight, and by 1944 the Central Bank was effectively a conduit for Japanese wartime resource extraction rather than a functioning monetary authority. Notes of this denomination were never intended for ordinary retail use — the 1000 Yuan represented an enormous sum relative to prevailing wages in the puppet state, and high-denomination issues in the final war years were largely instruments of institutional finance and forced procurement.
Surviving examples often show minimal wear, not because they were carefully preserved but because many sat unissued in bank vaults when the Soviet invasion of August 1945 collapsed the regime almost overnight.