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1000 Yuan
| Issuer | Federal Reserve Bank of China |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Yuan |
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| Obverse description | Dark olive-green intaglio print on pale paper. The right half of the face carries a detailed vignette of the Great Wall of China winding across a mountainous landscape, rendered in fine line engraving. To the left, a large central guilloche rosette frames the denomination 壹仟圓 in bold Chinese characters, flanked by scalloped corner ornaments bearing the same inscription; the bank title 中國聯合準備銀行 appears in the upper register alongside red serial numbers and block numerals. |
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| Reverse lettering | 壹仟圓 1000 |
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The Federal Reserve Bank of China was a Japanese-sponsored institution established in 1938 to manage currency in the occupied territories of north China. By 1945 the bank was issuing notes at increasingly large denominations to keep pace with wartime inflation, and this 1000 Yuan note belongs to that terminal phase — printed as the Japanese position in China was collapsing.
Redemption after the Japanese surrender was chaotic. The Nationalist government treated Federal Reserve Bank notes as enemy currency, and exchange rates imposed on holders were punitive. Survival in any grade reflects that most examples were simply discarded or destroyed in the immediate postwar period.