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1000 Yuan Central Bank of China
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 1000 Yuan |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀央中 圓仟壹 年四十三國民華中 (Translation: Central Bank of China One Thousand Yuan Printed in the 34th year of the Republic) |
| Reverse description | The centre of the reverse is dominated by an elaborate green guilloche rosette with the denomination in large Chinese characters at its heart. Two handwritten signatures appear to the left and right of the central vignette, accompanied by their respective titles in Chinese. The numeral '1000' is repeated vertically in the outer margins on both sides. |
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The 1945 date places this note in the final chaotic stretch of Nationalist currency management, when the Central Bank was printing at volumes it could not steward. Inflation had been accelerating since the early 1940s under wartime financing pressures, and the jump to 1,000-yuan denominations — unthinkable before the war — reflected how badly the fabi's purchasing power had collapsed. By late 1945, even this face value was losing ground rapidly against market prices.
The Central Bank of China Printing Works handled production domestically. Given the logistical strains of the period, quality control across the series was inconsistent, and paper stock varied between print runs.