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1000 Yuan Bank of Chang Chung
| Issuer | Bank of Chang Chung |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1948-1948) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and red print on a light ground with decorative guilloche border. A central oval vignette to the left shows a farmer plowing a field with a horse-drawn plow. The denomination 壹千圓 is displayed in a ornamental cartouche to the right. Bank name 長城銀行 appears across the top, with serial number and block letter prefix flanking it; vertical marginal inscriptions appear on both sides. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF CHANG CHUNG 1000 ONE THOUSAND YUAN 1948 |
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The Bank of Chang Chung was a short-lived regional institution operating under the Nationalist-aligned administration in Manchuria during the final, chaotic phase of the Chinese Civil War. By 1948, Changchun itself was under siege by Communist forces — a blockade that lasted roughly five months and resulted in catastrophic civilian casualties. Notes issued that year would have circulated, if at all, in a city being systematically starved into surrender.
Changchun fell to the People's Liberation Army in October 1948. Any paper issued by this bank effectively became worthless within months of printing.