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2000 Yuan Central Bank of China
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1912-1948) |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀央中 圓仟貳 印年一十三國民華中 (Translation: Central Bank of China Two Thousand Yuan Printed in the 31st year of the Republic) |
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| Protection description | Plain circular watermark area visible at left on both obverse and reverse. |
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The Central Bank of China's wartime high-denomination issues were printed abroad precisely because Japanese occupation and bombing had rendered domestic printing infrastructure unreliable. Thomas De La Rue's London facilities handled several of these contracts, delivering finished notes that then had to be transported into Free China — a supply chain complicated by the Pacific War after December 1941.
By 1942, Nationalist currency was deteriorating rapidly under wartime inflation. A 2000 Yuan note, enormous by prewar standards, was already struggling to keep pace with prices before it left the press.