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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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Orange letterpress print on cream paper. A vignette at right centre shows a farmer plowing a field with an ox. The face value '貳百圓' (200 Yuan) is displayed in a central cartouche flanked by decorative guilloche panels, with the bank title '華中銀行' across the top. Corner numerals '貳百' (200) appear in ornamental frames at each corner, and two square seal chops are present at the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | 華中銀行 貳百圓 貳百 |
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The Bank of Central China was established in 1945 as the Communist Party's regional financial authority for the Huainan and Huaibei base areas, operating in direct competition with the Nationalist government's currency network during the resumed civil war. The 200 Yuan denomination places this note in the inflationary upper register of the series — by 1946, the base areas required increasingly large face values simply to sustain routine transactions as Nationalist-issued fabi depreciated and Communist zones maintained parallel price structures.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference signals its classification as a regional or semi-official issue, a distinction that mattered enormously at the time: Nationalist authorities treated these notes as illegal tender, and possession in KMT-controlled territory carried real consequences.