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2000 Yuan Central Bank of China
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 中央銀行 貳仟圓 中華民國三十四年 (Translation: Central Bank of China / Two Thousand Yuan / 34th Year of the Republic of China) |
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| Reverse lettering | 2000 貳仟圓 (Translation: Two Thousand Yuan) |
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The Central Bank of China Printing Works was established specifically to reduce dependence on foreign printers — Waterlow, American Bank Note Company, and others had handled Chinese government currency for decades. By 1945, wartime inflation was already catastrophic: the index that stood at 100 in 1937 had crossed 100,000 by late 1945, and denominations like this 2,000 Yuan note, unthinkable before the war, were routine emergency issues in the final months of the conflict with Japan.
Hyperinflation rendered most of these notes nearly worthless within weeks of issue, so surviving examples in any meaningful grade are less common than print runs suggest.