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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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 中央銀行 貳仟圓 中華民國三十四年印 (Translation: Central Bank of China / Two Thousand Yuan / Printed in the 34th year of the Republic of China) |
| Reverse description | Dense guilloche patterns fill the entire field in brown-purple tones, framing a central panel bearing the denomination 貳仟圓 flanked by the numerals 2000 on either side. Two manuscript signatures appear at left and right within the decorative border. A repeating numeral band reading 2000 runs along the upper and lower margins. |
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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.