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5 Yuan brown
| Issuer | Bank of Taiwan |
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| Year | 1961 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown on multicolour underprint. Intaglio portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen at left, with a vignette of Eluanbi Lighthouse at right. Guilloche patterning frames the central design, with the issuer name and denomination inscribed in Chinese characters. |
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| Reverse description | Brown intaglio vignette of the Presidential Office Building in Taipei, rendered in fine line engraving with a panoramic street-level perspective showing the central clock tower and flanking wings surrounded by trees. Numeral 5 appears in each corner within ornate guilloche cartouches, and elaborate scrollwork borders frame the entire composition. |
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The Bank of Taiwan functioned as Taiwan's de facto central bank from 1945 until the Central Bank of China formally resumed that role in 1961 — the same year this note was issued, making it one of the last series produced under the older institutional arrangement. The Central Engraving and Printing Plant had relocated from the mainland to Taiwan in 1949 following the Nationalist retreat, and by the early 1960s had stabilized into consistent production runs for the island's currency needs.
Pick #1973 is not widely documented in terms of specific print quantities, and surviving circulated examples show pronounced wear along the horizontal fold lines characteristic of notes carried in the slim wallets common to the period.