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5 Dollars Kwangtung Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Kwangtung Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1931 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1900-1949) |
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| Obverse lettering | 廣東省銀行 (top centre) 伍圓 (flanking portrait) 作省毫券用 (upper panels) 中華民國二十年 (lower centre) LOCAL CURRENCY (overprint, lower centre) 美國鈔票公司 (bottom) |
| Reverse description | Executed in deep rose-red intaglio on plain paper, the reverse carries a central vignette of a traditional Chinese multi-storey pavilion building set within an ornate scrolled frame. The bank title THE KWANGTUNG PROVINCIAL BANK is lettered in large Roman capitals across the upper guilloche panel, with serial numbers in blue at left and right. The denomination legend 5 FIVE DOLLARS 5 / NATIONAL CURRENCY / 1931 appears in a cartouche at the base, with the printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. beneath. |
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The Kwangtung Provincial Bank was reorganized under Nationalist provincial authority in the late 1920s, and its early 1930s notes were produced by ABNC at a time when American bank note printers dominated Chinese provincial contracts. The arrangement was purely commercial — American security printing technology and intaglio engraving offered a level of anti-counterfeiting sophistication that no domestic Chinese printer could yet match.
S2426 belongs to a series that circulated primarily in Guangdong province, where the provincial government maintained a degree of financial autonomy from Nanjing well into the decade. That friction between central and regional banking authority runs directly through this note's existence.