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1000 Yuan Central Bank of China
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by an intricate guilloche pattern in green and cream tones, with the large Chinese characters 壹仟圓 printed at centre within a detailed lozenge-shaped guilloche frame. The Arabic numeral 1000 appears in each of the four corners, and vertical columns of fine-line security underprint fill the flanking panels on either side. |
| Reverse lettering | 壹仟圓 1000 (Translation: One Thousand Yuan) |
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By 1945, the Central Bank of China was printing enormous quantities of high-denomination notes to keep pace with wartime inflation that had been grinding through the Chinese economy since the Japanese invasion of 1937. The 1,000 Yuan note entered circulation at a moment when its face value, once significant, was already being eroded faster than the ink could dry.
The P#297 series was produced domestically — a necessity, since wartime conditions had long since severed reliable access to foreign security printers like American Bank Note or Waterlow. Domestic production meant compromises in security features that would matter increasingly little as hyperinflation made counterfeiting almost economically pointless.
Within three years of this note's issue, currency reform would render the entire fabi system worthless.