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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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| Reference(s) | P#S3362 |
| Obverse description | Printed in violet-brown. The central vignette presents a rural agricultural scene of farmers planting rice in terraced paddy fields, with a tree and mountainous landscape in the background. Chinese characters reading 華中銀行 (Bank of Central China) appear at the top, with the denomination 貳圓 in an ornate guilloche cartouche at the right, corner numerals 貳 at all four corners, and a red seal inscription 中統民國三十四年印 at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 華中銀行 貳圓 中統民國三十四年印 |
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The Bank of Central China was a puppet institution established under Japanese occupation to manage currency in the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi region. Notes issued under this authority in 1945 were circulating in territory that was actively contested — the final year of the Pacific War saw dramatic front-line shifts across central China, and much of this paper lost practical value within months of printing as Japanese control collapsed.
Pick S3362 falls in the "S" — Special — series, reflecting its provisional or regional military-economic character rather than mainstream national issue status.