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5 Yuan Bank of China
| Issuer | Bank of China |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 5 Yuan |
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| Obverse description | A blue and green bicolour design centred on a large circular guilloche vignette bearing the denomination characters, flanked at right by an oval intaglio vignette of a traditional Chinese temple with a pillared facade. The four corners carry the character 伍 in decorative foliate cartouches, and two manuscript signatures appear along the lower margin above the issuing authority inscription. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF CHINA FIVE YUAN 1941 |
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The Bank of China's 1941 series was printed entirely within occupied or semi-occupied territory, and the Commercial Press in Shanghai was by then operating under conditions shaped directly by Japanese military presence in the city. Whether that affected quality control or distribution patterns is not fully documented, but the 1941 issues are notably more variable in production consistency than the pre-war Commercial Press work.
Pick 93 belongs to a period when the Nationalist government's banking apparatus was fracturing between Chongqing, Hong Kong, and the occupied coastal cities — the note's nominal authority outpaced its actual reach.