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5 Yuan Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan |
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| Year | 1939 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red and black on light green underprint. Central vignette at left shows a gazebo set atop a hill above a cluster of houses, with a gateway by a shoreline at right. Guilloche patterning frames the design elements throughout the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green. Central vignette enclosed within a rectangular frame shows a waterside landscape with a gazebo and trees, flanked on either side by large numeral '5' denominators set against elaborate guilloche latticework. Bank name 'BANK OF CHINAN' is inscribed at the top, 'FIVE YUAN' at the base, with the date '1939' below centre, and two manuscript signatures appearing at lower left and lower right. |
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The Bank of Chinan was a Japanese-sponsored regional bank established in 1938 to manage occupied territory in Shandong province — one of several puppet financial institutions the Japanese military authorities set up across occupied China to displace Nationalist and older regional currencies. Its notes were instruments of economic control as much as anything else, designed to absorb and replace existing circulating money.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this squarely in the regional issues, and the C suffix within the S3069 type indicates a specific signature or overprint variant. Worth confirming which, as the variants carry meaningfully different scarcity levels.