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5 Fen Amoy Industrial Bank
| Issuer | The Amoy Industrial Bank |
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| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark green note printed on light paper, centred on a vignette of the lakeside pavilion in Zhongshan Park, Xiamen, rendered in fine intaglio line work with trees and water in the foreground. The bank name in Chinese characters (厦門勸業銀行) runs across the top panel, with the denomination 伍分 displayed in a floral rosette to the right. Corner cartouches carry the numeral 5 and the character 伍, and a red chop seal appears below the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | 厦門勸業銀行 伍 伍分 5 |
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The Amoy Industrial Bank was a Japanese-sponsored institution established during the occupation of Xiamen (Amoy), issuing local scrip to facilitate commerce under military administration. Notes of this series circulated in an environment where multiple competing currencies — Japanese military yen, Federal Reserve Bank notes, and surviving Republican-era issues — all moved simultaneously through the same markets.
The 5 Fen denomination served genuine small-change needs at a moment when coin production had been severely disrupted. Low-denomination occupation scrip of this period was typically used hard and discarded, making survivors in any condition genuinely uncommon.