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| Issuer | Bank of Central China |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Value | 200 Yuan |
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| Obverse lettering | 華中銀行 貳百圓 中華民國三十五年 |
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| Reverse lettering | 200 |
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The Bank of Central China was a Communist-administered regional bank established in the Zhongyuan (Central Plains) liberated area. Notes from this institution were issued as the civil war between Nationalist and Communist forces intensified after Japan's surrender, and the bank's emissions were explicitly part of a broader economic strategy to stabilize Communist-controlled territories and displace Nationalist currency in contested zones.
The 1946 high-denomination issues, including this 200 Yuan, circulated in areas of active military flux. Attribution and survival rates are complicated by the fact that Communist regional banknotes were systematically recalled and destroyed after 1949 when the People's Bank of China unified the currency.