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2 Yuan Bank of Central China
| Issuer | Bank of Central China |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1935-1946) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue, the obverse carries the bank title in Chinese characters (華中銀行) across the upper centre, with a large rural vignette occupying the left and centre of the note, showing figures planting rice in terraced paddy fields beside a tree-lined path with distant hills. To the right, the denomination 貳圓 appears within an elaborate foliate guilloche cartouche, flanked by two red chop seals; the lower margin bears the Chinese Republic year inscription 中華民國三十四年印. |
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| Obverse lettering | 華中銀行 貳圓 中華民國三十四年印 |
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The Bank of Central China was a Japanese puppet institution established in 1938 to administer currency across the occupied central Chinese territories. Notes issued under this authority circulated alongside — and were designed to gradually displace — the Nationalist fabi, part of a deliberate monetary destabilization policy. By 1945, with Japanese control visibly collapsing, confidence in these notes was negligible and inflation rampant.
S-prefixed Pick numbers for this series reflect its provisional classification among regional and occupational issues. Surviving examples from the final year of issue are not especially scarce, as printing outpaced any meaningful distribution network.