Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
2 Chiao 5 Fen / 25 Cents Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan |
|---|---|
| Year | 1939 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Yuan (1935-1946) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Purple-grey letterpress print on plain paper. Central vignette shows a towered stone arch bridge set against a mountainous landscape. Chinese inscriptions appear at top (冀南銀行) and along the side panels, with the denomination 貳角伍分 repeated in the corners; two red seal stamps appear at lower right, and a handwritten serial number is applied in red at upper centre. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Purple-grey letterpress print with a dense guilloche border framing the central vignette of a steam passenger locomotive travelling through a mountain cutting. Large numeral '25' appears in the left and right fields; the bank name 'BANK OF CHINAN' is inscribed at top, with 'TWENTY FIVE CENTS' and the year '1939' at bottom. Two facsimile signature inscriptions appear in the lower corners. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF CHINAN TWENTY FIVE CENTS 1939 |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments | Log in to see details |