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2000 Yuan Bank of Central China
| Issuer | Bank of Central China |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1946-1949) |
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| Obverse description | Brown on yellow underprint. Central vignette shows the Great Wall of China extending across the landscape, with a uniformed army bugler standing at left, rendered in fine intaglio style. Chinese characters reading 中華銀行 (Bank of Central China) appear at top center, with the denomination 貳仟圓 in a decorative guilloche cartouche at center, flanked by corner value tablets; date 中華民國三十七年 appears along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Dark green print on plain paper. The reverse is dominated by three large guilloche rosette cartouches, each bearing the numeral denomination, with the central cartouche displaying '2000' in bold numerals at larger scale; corner panels repeat the value '2000' and an ornate geometric border frames the entire design. The year '1948' is printed in red numerals along the lower center. |
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The Bank of Central China (中州农民银行, later reorganized) operated as a Communist Party regional currency authority during the civil war period, issuing notes to stabilize liberated areas under CCP control in Henan, Hubei, and Anhui. By 1948, inflation in Nationalist-held zones was catastrophic, and high-denomination regional Communist notes like this one were partly a practical response to that devaluation pressure — 2,000 yuan was a working denomination, not an aspirational one.
Regional Communist bank notes from this period were absorbed into the People's Bank of China system following its establishment in December 1948, making late-issue examples short-lived by design.