5 Yuan / Dollars Bank of China

The Bank of China's 1930 series was printed by the American Bank Note Company at a time when ABNCo held contracts with several major Chinese institutions simultaneously — a common arrangement that gave Republican-era Chinese currency a remarkably consistent engraving quality regardless of the issuing bank. The bilingual denomination, listing both yuan and dollars, reflects the commercial port environment in which these notes actively circulated, where foreign exchange rates were a daily practical concern rather than an abstraction.

Pick 68 is known in several place-of-payment overprint varieties, and misidentification between them is common. The base plate is shared; only the overprinted text distinguishes issues payable at different branches.