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20 Copper Coins Ho Pei Metropolitan Bank
| Issuer | Ho Pei Metropolitan Bank (京兆銀錢局) |
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| Year | 25 (1936) |
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| Value | 20 Copper Coins |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by an intricate guilloche pattern in dark purple-blue, with the numeral 20 appearing in each corner and at centre within a crosslet cartouche. The English legend 20 COPPER COINS / NATIONAL CURRENCY is set in a central horizontal band, with ornamental floral motifs and geometric lathe-work filling the remaining field. The imprint BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING, PEKING, CHINA appears along the lower margin, and a partially visible circular purple control stamp is applied to the right of centre. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 COPPER COINS NATIONAL CURRENCY BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING, PEKING, CHINA |
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The Ho Pei Metropolitan Bank — formally the 京兆銀錢局 — was a provincial institution tied to Hebei governance during one of the most unstable periods of Republican China. By 1936, the region was already operating under severe pressure from Japanese encroachment; the East Hebei Autonomous Council had been established the previous year, and Nationalist authority over the province was increasingly nominal. A copper-coin-denominated note in this environment speaks to the near-total collapse of small-currency supply in rural and peri-urban circulation.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Peking handled the printing — a facility that would change hands politically within a year of this note's issue date.