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| Issuer | Provincial Bank of Kwangtung Province |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 157 × 84 mm |
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| Obverse description | The bank name in Chinese characters appears at the top, with the central vignette occupied by a detailed engraved view of Zhenhai Tower in Canton, flanked by ornate guilloche panels bearing the numeral '5' at left and right. Chinese denomination inscriptions run along the borders, with the issuing authority and date in the Republic of China calendar rendered in the lower margin. |
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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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