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200 Yuan Bank of Central China
| Issuer | Bank of Central China (華中銀行) |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1946-1949) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green letterpress print on a pale ground. A central vignette presents the Temple of Heaven within its tiered marble terrace, flanked symmetrically by ornate columnar panels bearing the denomination 貳百圓 in Chinese characters. The bank title 華中銀行 appears in the upper central inscription, with two red seal stamps applied below the main vignette. Corner numerals repeat the value 百 at each angle of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 華中銀行 貳百圓 |
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The Bank of Central China was established by the Communist Party in 1945 to serve the liberated areas of central China — Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi — as Nationalist and Communist forces moved toward open civil war. This 200 Yuan note dates from 1946, when the bank was actively displacing both Japanese occupation currency and competing regional issues in areas recently wrested from Japanese control.
The S-prefix Pick number flags it as a regional or provisional issue rather than a central government note — a distinction that mattered enormously in 1946, when monetary authority in China was genuinely contested territory.