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2 Yuan Central Bank of China
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Size | 148 x 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sun Yat-sen in intaglio at left, set against a blue guilloche underprint. The large denomination characters 貳圓 occupy the central field, flanked by corner numerals reading 貳. Two red seal impressions appear in the lower portion, with the date inscription 中華民國三十年印 at the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀央中 圓貳 印年十三國民華中 (Translation: Central Bank of China Two Yuan Printed in the 30th year of the Republic) |
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Thomas De La Rue printed this note in London during a period of acute logistical difficulty — by 1941, wartime shipping lanes made delivering banknotes from Britain to Nationalist-controlled China genuinely hazardous, and a significant proportion of printed currency stock was lost or delayed in transit. The Central Bank of China was simultaneously sourcing notes from multiple foreign printers, partly as a hedge against exactly this kind of supply disruption.
The 1941 issues also coincided with accelerating inflation driven by Japanese military pressure and the costs of sustained warfare, meaning notes of this denomination entered circulation into an economy already losing confidence in paper currency at low face values.