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5 Yuan / 5 Yan Ta Chiang Bank / Dagiang Inxang, violet
| Issuer | Ta Chiang Bank (大江銀行) |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a single-arch stone bridge rendered in fine line engraving, set within a rectangular frame. The denomination 伍圓 (5 Yuan) appears in large Chinese characters to the left of the vignette, with the bank name 大江銀行 (Ta Chiang Bank) inscribed along the upper margin. Serial numbers are printed in the upper corners, and the note is bordered by a guilloche-patterned frame with the denomination numeral 伍 repeated in each corner. |
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| Reverse description | Central circular guilloche vignette of a peasant woman harvesting grain with a sickle, surrounded by an intricate engine-turned underprint pattern covering the entire field. The bank name DAGIANG INXANG is inscribed in Latin characters along the upper margin, with the denomination 5 YAN and the date 1944 appearing in the lower portion of the note. The denomination numeral 5 is set within an ornate guilloche medallion to the left, and the corner pieces repeat the value. |
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Ta Chiang Bank (大江銀行) was a regional bank operating under Japanese-sponsored administration in occupied China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Notes of this type circulated in a monetary environment deliberately engineered to absorb local purchasing power and displace Nationalist currency — the proliferation of puppet bank issues was policy, not accident.
Pick S3690 sits in a catalogue section covering issues that remain poorly documented in Western references. Attribution and exact printing provenance for many Ta Chiang notes are still debated among specialists, and circulation records are fragmentary at best.