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1000 Yuan Bank of Central China
| Issuer | Bank of Central China |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on plain paper. A central rectangular vignette depicts farmers ploughing fields with cattle in a rural landscape. The denomination 壹仟圓 appears in large characters within ornamental lobed cartouches to the left and right of the vignette, repeated in smaller form at each corner, with the bank title 華中銀行 inscribed across the top centre. |
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| Reverse description | Blue-grey letterpress print composed entirely of guilloche-patterned lobed cartouches arranged symmetrically, each bearing the numeral 1000. The central cartouche carries the denomination inscription 壹仟圓 in bold Chinese characters, flanked by two manuscript signatures in ink, with no additional pictorial vignette. |
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The Bank of Central China (中央中国银行) was a Communist-controlled regional bank established in 1948 to facilitate currency unification across the liberated areas of Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi. Notes dated 1947 predate the formal bank consolidation and reflect the transitional period when multiple separate base-area banks were still issuing competing scrip — this 1000 Yuan denomination belongs to that unstable interim phase, before the People's Bank of China absorbed regional issuers entirely in 1949.
Pick S3397 is catalogued among the regional revolutionary base-area issues, a classification that often understates how politically fraught local currency acceptance actually was. Peasants in contested zones frequently refused paper from either side.