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5 Yuan / Dollars Central Bank of China
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1930 |
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| Value | 5 Yuan = 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in intaglio portrait within an oval guilloche frame, flanked by two elaborate pink and green rosette underprints bearing the denomination in Chinese characters. The bank title 行銀央中 appears across the top in large Chinese characters, with the denomination 伍圓 rendered in bold script at right. Two facsimile signatures appear at the base, one for the Asst. Manager and one for the General Manager, above the imprint year in Chinese. |
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| Reverse lettering | THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT ITS OFFICE HERE FIVE DOLLARS NATIONAL CURRENCY SHANGHAI 1930 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The Central Bank of China was only formally reconstituted under Nationalist government control in 1928, making this 1930 issue one of its earliest standardized note series. The American Bank Note Company had a long relationship with Chinese issuing authorities stretching back into the late Qing period, and ABNC's New York plant handled a substantial share of Republican-era Chinese printing during years when domestic security printing capacity remained unreliable.
P#200 is not among the rarer entries in the series, but pre-war ABNC-printed Nationalist issues suffered severe attrition through wartime displacement, hyperinflation-era hoarding, and the 1948–49 currency collapses that rendered most paper holdings worthless almost overnight.