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5 Yuan Bank of Central China
| Issuer | Bank of Central China |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple. The central vignette presents an agricultural and irrigation landscape with paddy fields, grazing cattle, and a well or threshing structure at right, set against a distant hill horizon. The bank title 華中銀行 (Bank of Central China) appears across the top, with the denomination 伍圓 in large Chinese characters at left and right corners and within an ornate central cartouche; two red seal stamps appear in the lower centre, and the date 中華民國三十四年 (Republic of China Year 34) runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown. The design is centred on a large guilloche rosette enclosing the numeral '5', flanked by four corner medallions each bearing the digit '5' within scalloped frames. A scrollwork banner across the top carries the English inscription 'THE BANK OF CENTRAL CHINA', with 'FIVE YUAN' in a rectangular panel below the central rosette and the year '1945' beneath it; the overall layout is framed by fine interlaced decorative borders. |
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The Bank of Central China (中央银行) was a regional authority bank established under the Chinese Communist Party's base area administration in Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi — not to be confused with the Nationalist government's own Central Bank of China. This note was issued in the final year of the Second Sino-Japanese War, when Communist-controlled areas in central China maintained their own parallel currency systems largely independent of Chongqing's financial apparatus.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places it in the specialized regional category, reflecting its limited geographic circulation within a contested wartime zone rather than any national monetary framework.