5 Yuan / Dollars Canton

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背面描述	Central vignette of a Chinese junk under sail, enclosed within a circular guilloche frame. The denomination is repeated in large block letters to either side, and the issuer's promise-to-pay clause appears in English along the upper border. The place name CANTON and the date 1949 are printed below the central vignette, with the printer's imprint at the foot.
背面铭文	THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND FIVE SILVER DOLLARS CANTON 1949
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备注	By the time this note was issued in 1949, the Central Bank of China was in its death throes. Hyperinflation had already destroyed the gold yuan introduced just the previous year — itself an emergency replacement for the collapsed fabi — and the Nationalist government was hemorrhaging territory to Communist forces. Notes denominated in single digits were functionally meaningless within weeks of printing. Chung Hwa Book Co. was a Shanghai commercial printer pressed repeatedly into currency production as the established facilities struggled to keep pace with demand. The Canton designation locates the note within a regional series issued as the Nationalists attempted to maintain some semblance of monetary administration in southern China ahead of their eventual retreat to Taiwan.

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