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200 Yuan Bank of Chang Chung
| Issuer | Bank of Chang Chung |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1948-1948) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette at left within a rectangular frame presents a landscape view of the Great Wall of China rendered in intaglio-style engraving. To the right, the denomination 貳百圓 (Two Hundred Yuan) is displayed in large Chinese characters within an ornate guilloche panel. The bank name 長城銀行 appears across the top, with serial number prefix and number at upper left and upper right respectively, and the date inscription 中華三十七年民國 at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF CHANG CHUNG TWO HUNDRED YUAN 200 |
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The Bank of Chang Chung (長春銀行) was a short-lived regional institution operating in Jilin Province under conditions of extreme instability — the city of Changchun was under Nationalist siege by the People's Liberation Army through much of 1948, resulting in one of the most brutal urban blockades of the civil war period. Notes from this bank circulated in a city that was, by the later months of that year, cut off from resupply and experiencing catastrophic famine.
Survival rates for this paper are low not through deliberate destruction but through the chaos of the siege's aftermath. The 200 Yuan denomination reflects the hyperinflationary pressure on all Nationalist-sphere regional currencies during this period.