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2 Yuan / 2 Yan Ta Chiang Bank / Dagiang Inxang
| Issuer | Ta Chiang Bank (大江銀行) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a farmer working in the fields beside a large millstone or grinding wheel, rendered in a simple woodblock-style print. The bank name 大江銀行 (Ta Chiang Bank) appears across the top, with the denomination 二元 (2 Yuan) at left and right within a green guilloche border. Serial number in red appears at upper left and upper right, with a red chop seal at lower left and the date 1945 at the bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | 大江銀行 二元 和含 1945 |
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Ta Chiang Bank (大江銀行) was one of numerous regional Chinese banks operating under Japanese-sponsored or collaborationist administrations during the final years of the Second Sino-Japanese War. By 1945 the military and political situation had collapsed to the point where notes issued that year by many such institutions never achieved meaningful circulation — printing and distribution outpaced any realistic economic function.
The Pick reference S3699 places this firmly in the "Puppet Banks" category of Chinese provincial issues, a classification that itself tells you more about the note's legitimacy in retrospect than any contemporary authority would have acknowledged. Survival rates for these late-war regional issues vary enormously; some were printed in quantity but destroyed after liberation, others surfaced decades later in warehouse lots.