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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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| Printer | American Western Banknote Company |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀央中 圓仟壹 (Translation: Central Bank of China 1000 Yuan) |
| Reverse description | The centre is occupied by a large denomination cartouche reading 壹仟圓 above the numeral 1000, set within an elaborate guilloche underprint of radiating lines and foliate scroll borders in brown. The bank title 中央銀行 runs along the top, with the numeral 1000 repeated at each corner. Two lines of smaller text at lower centre record the year of printing in the Republican calendar and the printer's name. |
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The American Western Banknote Company was a smaller competitor to the dominant ABNC and BWC houses, and its contract work for the Chinese Nationalist government during the war years reflects the scramble for printing capacity as demand for high-denomination notes accelerated with wartime inflation. By 1945, the Central Bank of China's currency was deteriorating rapidly in purchasing power — the 1000 Yuan, a significant sum just years earlier, was losing practical value almost as quickly as notes could be printed and shipped across the Pacific.
P#294 is one of several issues from this period where distinguishing between printer variants requires close attention to marginal inscriptions.