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5 Yuan Bank of Kirin
| Issuer | Bank of Kirin (吉林省银行) |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 吉林省银行 伍圆 地方流通券 NO (1) |
| Reverse description | The back is printed in violet on a pale ground with elaborate guilloche rosettes flanking a central vignette of a steam locomotive at a railway yard with industrial buildings and rolling stock visible in the background. The legend BANK OF KIRIN arches across the top of a cartouche, with the numeral 5 repeated on each side, and the inscription FIVE YUAN above the date 1946 along the lower margin. |
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The Bank of Kirin was reestablished under Soviet-backed Chinese Communist authority following the Red Army's sweep through Manchuria in August 1945. This 1946 issue belongs to the brief transitional period when the Northeast was neither fully under Nationalist nor Communist control — a contested interregnum that gave rise to a proliferation of regional currency authorities, each issuing paper against uncertain reserves.
Notes from this series are frequently encountered with heavy rural handling wear, consistent with active circulation in Jilin province markets before the Northeast Bureau consolidated currency under the Northeast Bank in 1948, effectively ending the Bank of Kirin's independent issuing function.