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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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| Value | 2000 Yuan |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sun Yat-sen in an intaglio vignette at right, set against a guilloche underprint in brown-purple tones. The denomination 貳仟圓 (Two Thousand Yuan) is printed in large Chinese characters at centre, flanked by ornate scroll borders. Serial numbers appear at upper left and upper right, with the issuing bank name 中央銀行 across the top and the Republic of China year inscription along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 貳仟圓 2000 (Translation: Two Thousand Yuan) |
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The Central Bank of China issued enormous denominations in 1945 as wartime inflation — already severe after years of conflict with Japan — began accelerating toward the hyperinflationary collapse that would make the Nationalist currency essentially worthless by 1948–49. A 2,000 Yuan note that would have represented significant purchasing power in the late 1930s was, by 1945, a routine transactional denomination.
The Central Bank of China Printing Works produced this domestically, a necessity since wartime conditions had severely disrupted the prewar arrangement of contracting foreign security printers.