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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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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 大江銀行 二元 和含 1945 |
| Reverse description | Plain green note with a central ornate cartouche bearing the denomination numerals '2 YAN' in large bold lettering, flanked by two circular medallions each bearing the numeral '2'. The bank name 'DAGIANG INXANG' is inscribed in Roman letters along the top border. A red overprint in Chinese characters at the bottom reads 值國幣壹百圓 (equivalent to one hundred national currency yuan). |
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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.