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5 Dollars Kwangtung Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Provincial Bank of Kwangtung Province |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1900-1949) |
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| Obverse lettering | 券換兌行銀省東廣 圓伍 圓伍 印年七國民華中 圓銀用通換兌券憑 |
| Reverse description | The face is printed entirely in dark purple on a dense intaglio guilloche ground, with the bank title 'THE PROVINCIAL BANK OF KWANG TUNG PROVINCE' in a banner across the top and the promise-to-pay legend arching around the central medallion. The central vignette consists of concentric lathe-work rosettes enclosing the stylised word 'FIVE' with the numeral '5' interposed, while four corner panels each carry the numeral '5'; the denomination 'FIVE DOLLARS' appears in full at the foot, flanked by '伍圓' at lower left and 'Five Dollars' at lower right, with 'CANTON,' and 'JAN. 1ST 1918.' at the base and the printer's imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK.' in the bottom margin. |
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The Provincial Bank of Kwangtung Province was one of several regional Chinese institutions that turned to the American Bank Note Company in the early Republic period, when domestic printing capacity could not reliably produce notes resistant to counterfeiting. ABNC supplied engraved plates of demonstrably higher security quality than most local alternatives, and the relationship was common enough among Chinese provincial banks that ABNC's New York vaults held standing plates for multiple issuers simultaneously.
Kwangtung's finances in 1918 were tangled in the political rivalry between the Beijing government and Sun Yat-sen's southern military administration, which had established a competing government in Canton that same year. Provincial banking notes from this period circulated under contested authority.