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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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| Value | 200 Yuan |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on cream paper. The central vignette presents a riverside landscape with a pagoda tower at right, set among trees and traditional structures against a mountain backdrop. The denomination 貳百圓 appears within a guilloche oval at left, with corner cartouches bearing 貳百 repeated at each angle and the bank title 華中銀行 across the top. |
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| Obverse lettering | 華中銀行 貳百圓 中民國三十五年印 華中銀行印 |
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The Bank of Central China was established in 1945 as a Communist Party financial institution operating in the Liberated Areas of central China during the final phase of the civil war against the Nationalists. It was not a conventional central bank but a regional wartime instrument, issuing notes to fund military operations and stabilize commerce in areas under CCP control — functioning alongside several other regional "people's banks" that would eventually be consolidated into the People's Bank of China in 1948.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference signals its classification as a local or special issue, distinct from the main Nationalist series. Surviving examples are unevenly distributed; many were withdrawn rapidly after Liberation-era currency unification.