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1000 Yuan
| Issuer | Bank of Taiwan |
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| Year | 1948 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vignette of the Bank of Taiwan building with a flag on the roof; at centre, a portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen; at right, an outline map of Taiwan. Bilingual inscriptions in Chinese characters frame the design, with the denomination and issuing authority rendered in formal script. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red and olive-green on a cream ground, with an elaborate guilloche border framing the central design. A large oval vignette at centre depicts the naval Battle of Liaoluo Bay (1633), with sailing warships engaged in combat before a coastal landscape. The numeral "1000" appears in large figures to the left and right of the central vignette. |
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By 1948, the Bank of Taiwan had effectively decoupled from the collapsing mainland financial system, issuing its own series ahead of the formal introduction of the New Taiwan Dollar in June 1949. This 1000 Yuan note belongs to that transitional period — printed domestically by the Central Engraving and Printing Plant as Taiwan scrambled to establish independent monetary infrastructure before the KMT government's full retreat from the mainland.
The timing matters. Notes of this denomination circulated alongside catastrophic hyperinflationary conditions on the mainland, though Taiwan's own currency was spared the worst of it precisely because this parallel system was already in place.