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2000 Yuan Central Bank of China
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Reference(s) | P#301 |
| Obverse description | Dark purple on light purple underprint. Portrait vignette of Sun Yat-sen positioned at center-left, with red serial numbers and two red official seals. The design is framed by intricate guilloche patterns typical of the wartime Republican issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | 貳仟圓 副局長 田煬進 局長 李卓 2000 (Translation: Two Thousand Yuan; Deputy Director Tian Yangjin; Director Li Zhuo) |
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The Central Bank of China's 1945 high-denomination issues were a direct product of wartime hyperinflation — by the final years of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Nationalist government was printing notes at denominations that would have been unthinkable a decade earlier. The 2000 Yuan note appeared as purchasing power collapsed so rapidly that even these figures became inadequate within months of issue.
P#301 falls within a series printed under severe wartime supply constraints, with quality and paper stock varying considerably between print runs. Distinguishing individual printers within this series requires close attention to serial number prefixes and minor typographic differences — the catalog data alone is insufficient.