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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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| Printer | Ta Tung Book Co. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and composed entirely of elaborate guilloche lacework framing a central floral medallion, within which the denomination 貳仟圓 is inscribed in Chinese characters. The numeral 2000 appears in all four corners within lobed cartouches. Two vertical columns of printed signature text appear to the left and right of centre, identifying the Director and Deputy Director of the issuing bureau. |
| Reverse lettering | 副局長 田炳雄 局長 李顯平 貳仟圓 2000 (Translation: Deputy Director Tian Bingyong / Director Li Xianping / Two Thousand Yuan) |
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The Central Bank of China's wartime high-denomination issues of 1945 reflect the accelerating collapse of the Nationalist government's monetary control. By the final year of the Second Sino-Japanese War, inflation had rendered lower denominations functionally useless, forcing the issuance of notes in values that would have been unthinkable five years earlier. The 2000 Yuan sits within a broader proliferation of emergency high-denomination paper that was itself quickly overtaken by even larger values as hyperinflation worsened through 1947–1948.
Ta Tung Book Co. was one of several domestic printers pressed into currency production as wartime conditions disrupted access to foreign security printers. Domestic production varied considerably in quality and consistency across the series.