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5 Yuan Bank of Hopei
| Issuer | Bank of Hopei (河北省銀行) |
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| Year | 1934 |
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| Value | 5 Yuan |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a panoramic landscape view of Beihai Park in Peking, with the Island of the White Pagoda (Baita) rising above the treeline across the lake, rendered in fine intaglio line work. A large floral guilloche medallion bearing the Chinese characters 伍圓 (Five Yuan) is superimposed at centre over the vignette. The design is framed by an ornate scalloped border with denomination characters 伍 in the upper corners, with issuer and serial number inscriptions across the top and promise-to-pay and date legends along the lower register. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF HOPEI 圓 5 伍 YUAN PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER AT ITS OFFICE HERE FIVE YUAN LOCAL CURRENCY 1934 TIENTSIN BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING PEIPING CHINA |
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The Bank of Hopei was a provincial bank established by the Nationalist government to manage finances in Hebei Province, but by 1934 it was operating under conditions of acute political pressure — Japanese forces had effectively neutralized central government authority in the region following the Tanggu Truce signed in May 1933. Notes issued through this period carry an uncomfortable ambiguity about which power they ultimately served.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Peiping was one of the few domestic security printers capable of producing notes to a credible technical standard, though its output was frequently disrupted by the political instability that consumed northern China through the mid-1930s.