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5 Yuan Bank of Hopei
| Issuer | Bank of Hopei (河北省銀行) |
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| Year | 1934 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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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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| Obverse lettering | 行銀省北河 圓伍 圓伍幣國付即券憑 印年三廿國民華中 (Translation: Hopeh Province Bank Five Yuan To pay by this note five yuan national currency Printed year 23 of the Chinese Republic) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in rose-red on a fine guilloche underprint bearing repeated 'FIVE YUAN' microtext. The central motif is a large arabesque medallion enclosing the numeral 5, flanked symmetrically by two elaborate floral rosettes bearing the Chinese characters 圓 (Yuan) and 伍 (Five) respectively. The denomination numeral 5 also appears in scalloped cartouches at each corner. The bank name 'BANK OF HOPEI' is lettered in a panel at top, with the place name 'TIENTSIN' and the promise-to-pay legend in English at lower centre, dated 1934, and the printer's imprint 'BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING PEIPING CHINA' at foot. |
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