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20 Cents Kwangtung Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Kwangtung Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1935 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of two Chinese junks under full sail on a harbour, with additional vessels visible in the background against a mountainous shoreline. Denomination numeral '20' appears in each corner within elaborate guilloche rosettes, with vertical micro-numeral panels '20 20' on both lateral borders. The bank name arches across the top in a scrolled banner, and the promise-to-pay legend with denomination is set in ornamental lettering at the bottom centre. |
| Reverse lettering | THE KWANGTUNG PROVINCIAL BANK 1935 PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT ITS OFFICE HERE TWENTY CENTS LOCAL CURRENCY AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The Kwangtung Provincial Bank operated under the Guangdong provincial government, which through much of the early 1930s maintained a degree of financial autonomy from the Nationalist central government in Nanjing — an autonomy that made institutions like this one politically as well as economically significant. By 1935, that independence was narrowing fast, and the provincial bank's days as a genuinely autonomous issuer were numbered.
ABNC's involvement was typical of Chinese provincial banking in this period — domestic printing capacity for secure currency was limited, and American Bank Note held contracts across multiple competing Chinese authorities simultaneously.