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5 Yuan Central Bank of China
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Sun Yat-sen in three-quarter view occupies the left portion of the note, framed within a fine guilloche border printed in green over a multicolour rosette underprint. The denomination 伍圓 appears in large characters at centre, flanked by two red seal stamps, with ornamental corner medallions each bearing the character 伍. A watermark panel is visible at right. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the Avenue and Gateway to the Kong Family Cemetery, with the Temple and Tomb of Confucius rendered in fine line engraving. The scene is enclosed within a guilloche border in green, with the bank name and denomination inscribed in English along the upper and lower margins. |
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The 1936 Central Bank of China series was printed by De La Rue in London under contracts that continued even as Japanese military pressure on the Chinese coast intensified. Within two years of this note's issue date, wartime conditions had forced the Central Bank to relocate operations inland, and currency production shifted to alternative printers — including American Bank Note Company — as British supply lines became unreliable.
De La Rue's involvement with Chinese government currency contracts stretched back decades, and the quality of their intaglio work on this series is notably finer than contemporaneous notes produced under duress after 1937.