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20 Yuan Bank of Central China
| Issuer | Bank of Central China (中华中银行) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on plain paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of a rural agricultural landscape with farmsteads, trees, and a figure working the fields at right. The bank title 華中銀行 appears across the top, with the denomination 貳拾圓 inscribed centrally in a decorative cartouche; corner panels repeat 貳拾 in stylized script. Two red chop seals are affixed in the lower-left area, and the date 中華民國三十四年 (Republic of China Year 34, i.e. 1945) runs along the bottom edge. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in yellow-ochre tones, the reverse presents a symmetrical geometric design composed of interlocking guilloche borders and ornamental cartouches, with the numeral 20 repeated three times across the central register within circular frames. Chinese text appears in the upper-left and upper-right corners, and a meander key-pattern band runs along the lower border. |
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The Bank of Central China (中国农民银行 is not the issuer here — this was a Communist Party-aligned regional bank operating in the Liberated Areas of central China during the final years of the Japanese occupation and into the civil war period. These regional banks issued notes partly to fund military operations and partly to displace competing currencies — Japanese military yen, puppet regime scrip, and Nationalist fabi — from circulation in areas as they changed hands.
Pick S3370 falls within a series where printing quality and paper stock varied considerably depending on what was available in the field. Condition issues on survivors often trace directly to wartime storage rather than heavy use.