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1000 Yuan Bank of China
| Issuer | Bank of China |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 1000 Yuan |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse centres on a guilloche panel bearing the large numeral 1000, with an oval vignette at right enclosing a view of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. The bank title BANK OF CHINA runs across the top in English, and the denomination ONE THOUSAND YUAN is inscribed along the bottom, with the year 1942 positioned below the central numeral. The printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY appears along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF CHINA 1000 ONE THOUSAND YUAN 1942 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The Bank of China was one of four government-affiliated banks operating in Nationalist China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and by 1942 it was operating under increasingly constrained conditions as Japanese forces controlled much of the eastern seaboard. Having plates printed by the American Bank Note Company in New York was not unusual for Chinese institutions — ABNC had handled Chinese government printing contracts for decades — but the logistics of getting finished notes from New York to Free China by 1942 were genuinely complicated, with Pacific shipping routes effectively closed after Pearl Harbor.
The 1000 Yuan denomination reflects the inflation already accelerating through the wartime Nationalist economy, a spiral that would eventually render such notes nearly worthless by the late 1940s.