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1000 Yuan Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green on pink underprint. A central oval vignette presents a steam passenger locomotive in motion on a railway line, framed by an elaborate guilloche border. The denomination 壹千圓 (One Thousand Yuan) appears in Chinese characters on both lateral panels, with the bank name 冀南銀行 inscribed at the top and red seal impressions at the lower corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | 冀南銀行 壹千圓 |
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The Bank of Chinan (Jinan Bank) was a currency-issuing institution established under Japanese occupation authority in Shandong province. Its notes circulated as part of the broader monetary apparatus the Japanese military used to extract resources and displace legitimate Chinese currency across occupied northern China during the war years. The 1000 Yuan denomination sits at the high end of the series — large-denomination occupation notes were frequently printed in quantities that bore no relation to actual economic need, accelerating the inflation they nominally served.
Shandong-area occupation currency is frequently encountered with heavy foxing and edge damage, conditions attributable to wartime storage rather than heavy transactional use.