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2000 Customs Gold Units

Issuer Central Bank of China
Year 1948
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Shape Rectangular
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Obverse description Portrait of Sun Yat-sen within an oval vignette at centre, printed in red on a guilloche underprint with blue tonal elements in the lower denomination panel. Two red seal impressions flank the central vignette, with the bank title 中央銀行 in large characters above and the denomination 關金貳仟圓 rendered in bold Chinese script within a lozenge-shaped guilloche cartouche below. Denomination numerals 貳仟 appear in all four corners, and the issuing date inscription runs along the lower border.
Obverse lettering 行銀央中 關 金 貳 仟 圓 印年七十三國民華中 廠製印央中
(Translation: Central Bank of China Two Thousand Customs Gold Units Printed in the 37th year of the Republic of China Central Engraving and Printing Plant)
Reverse description Vignette of the Central Bank of China headquarters building in Shanghai, rendered in red intaglio, occupying the upper half of the note with the bank name in English lettering arched above. The lower half carries a decorative guilloche cartouche with the numeral 2000 repeated at each corner and the English denomination legend at centre. Two facsimile signatures of bank officials appear below the central cartouche.
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