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2 Chiao Fukien Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Fukien Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown on light ground. A vignette at right portrays a long wooden trestle bridge spanning a river, with hills and trees visible in the background. The denomination 貳角 appears in a guilloche cartouche at left, flanked by corner ornaments, with the bank title 福建省銀行 at upper right and two red seal impressions at lower right. The date inscription 中華民國三十年印 runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Brown on light ground. The design is dominated by a dense guilloche underprint with a fan-scale pattern filling the central field. Two scalloped cartouches carry the denomination in Chinese (貳角) at left and in Arabic numerals (20) at right, with the bank title 福建省銀行 inscribed in a panel at the top centre. Two manuscript signatures appear in the middle of the note, one to the left and one to the right of centre. |
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Fukien (Fujian) Province maintained its own regional banking infrastructure well into the Republican period, and the Fukien Provincial Bank continued issuing notes even as Japanese forces controlled significant portions of the coast and the provincial capital Fuzhou changed hands repeatedly during the early 1940s. The 1941 dating places this note squarely in that unstable period.
The chiao denominations of this series were workhorses of small daily transactions in the interior, where Nationalist currency policy tried to maintain a functional money supply in contested territory. Notes of this type were frequently re-issued, overprinted, or replaced as political control shifted.