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5 Jiao
| Issuer | Central Bank of Manchukuo |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1934-1945) |
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| Obverse lettering | 滿洲中央銀行 五 角 (Translation: Manchuria Central Bank 50 Fen) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of a traditional Chinese pavilion complex with surrounding trees, rendered in fine intaglio line work on a yellow-olive guilloche ground. The bank title appears in vertical Chinese characters across the upper register beneath a Manchukuo orchid crest emblem. A decorative cartouche at the lower centre contains the statutory monetary law inscription in vertical Chinese text, flanked by elaborate foliate scroll borders. |
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Manchukuo's Central Bank issued this note under the direct financial architecture imposed by the Kwantung Army, which maintained effective control over the bank's operations throughout the puppet state's existence. The 5 Jiao denomination placed it squarely in everyday transactional use across a region where the Japanese military was simultaneously engineering a parallel currency system designed to displace both Chinese silver coinage and the older Manchurian provincial notes.
The J-prefix in the Pick reference reflects its classification as a Japanese-occupied territories issue rather than a sovereign emission — a distinction the catalog makes that the issuing authority, obviously, did not.