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5 Yuan Bank of China
| Issuer | Bank of China |
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| Year | 1935 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sun Yat-sen at left, rendered in intaglio against a guilloche underprint. At right, a detailed vignette of the bridge leading to the Bottle Pagoda (Linggu Pagoda area), set against a hillside landscape. The denomination 伍圓 appears in large Chinese characters within an ornate geometric frame at centre, flanked by decorative corner panels bearing the place name 上海 (Shanghai) in vertical script. |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀國中 圓伍 印年四十二國民華中 (Translation: Bank of China 5 Yuan The 24th Year of the Republic of China) |
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The Bank of China's 1935 series was issued under the Nationalist government's currency reform of that same year, which consolidated note-issuing authority among four major government banks and officially moved China off the silver standard. The timing matters: within two years, the Second Sino-Japanese War would disrupt distribution networks entirely, meaning notes from this series circulated under dramatically different conditions than those anticipated at issue.
De La Rue's London production gave the series a quality of engraving that domestic Chinese presses could not yet match — a deliberate political signal about the Nationalist government's financial credibility to foreign creditors.