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200 Yuan Bank of Central China
| Issuer | Bank of Central China (華中銀行) |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1946-1949) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on plain paper. Central vignette shows a wood-sawing scene with workers and timber in a rural setting, framed within a scalloped cartouche. The bank name 華中銀行 appears at top centre, with the denomination 貳百圓 inscribed within the central cartouche and repeated in corner panels, and the cyclical date 中華民國三十七年 running along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress print with an elaborate guilloche pattern filling the entire field, centred on a large floral medallion enclosing the bold numeral 200. Corner pieces repeat the value 200, and the year 1948 is printed in italic numerals along the lower margin. |
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The Bank of Central China was a Communist Party-controlled institution established in 1948 to serve the Liberated Areas of central China as civil war against the Nationalists accelerated toward its conclusion. It was not a national bank — it operated regionally, and its notes competed directly with Nationalist currency in contested territory, a deliberate instrument of economic destabilization as much as a functional medium of exchange.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this squarely in the regional and provisional issues section — a classification that understates how politically significant these notes were in the final phase of the civil war.