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| Emittent | Central Bank of China |
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| Jahr | 1941 |
| Typ | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Portrait of Sun Yat-Sen in intaglio at left, set against an intricate guilloche underprint in green and yellow. A large central vignette of ornate guilloche rosette surrounds the Chinese character denomination 伍圓 (Five Yuan). Two red seal stamps flank the central vignette, with serial numbers printed in red at upper left and upper right. Bank name 中央銀行 appears at top center, with the date inscription 中華民國三十年 at lower center. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | 中央銀行 伍圓 中華民國三十年 (Translation: Central Bank of China / Five Yuan / 30th Year of the Republic of China) |
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| Anmerkungen |
By 1941, Nationalist China's printing infrastructure was severely disrupted — Chongqing, the wartime capital, lacked the capacity to meet demand, so the Central Bank continued to contract overseas. Waterlow & Sons had supplied Chinese currency well before the Japanese invasion, and that relationship held even as the war ground on. The notes were shipped through increasingly dangerous supply routes.
Rampant wartime inflation meant denominations like this 5 Yuan were being superseded in purchasing power almost as fast as they could be distributed. Within two years, the Central Bank was issuing notes in the hundreds and then thousands of yuan.