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2000 Customs Gold Units
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Value | 2000 Customs Gold Units (2000 關金圓) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sun Yat-sen set within an oval vignette at centre, printed in dark teal intaglio against an intricate guilloche underprint in blue and orange tones. Two red seal impressions flank the lower portion of the portrait, above the central denomination cartouche reading 關金貳仟圓. The serial number appears twice in red, above and below the design, with the bank title 中央銀行 in bold Chinese characters at the top. |
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| Reverse description | A detailed intaglio vignette of the Central Bank of China headquarters building in Shanghai occupies the upper half, framed by ornamental scrollwork and a guilloche border. Below, a large numeral 2000 guilloche medallion contains the English denomination inscription within a central banner. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the note, attributed to the General Manager and Assistant General Manager respectively. |
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The Customs Gold Unit was a specialized denomination introduced by the Central Bank of China in 1946 to collect import duties, replacing the increasingly worthless Fabi at a fixed rate. By 1947, when this 2000 CGU note was printed, the system was already buckling — hyperinflation had eroded the Fabi so severely that even customs accounting required denominations that would have seemed absurd two years earlier.
The CGU series was short-lived. Nationalist fiscal collapse made the denomination obsolete within a year of issue, and many high-denomination notes were never meaningfully circulated before the currency was abandoned entirely.