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5 Yuan Kwangtung Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Kwangtung Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Size | 141 × 79 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 廣東省銀行 伍圓 通用貨幣 中華書局有限公司 (Translation: Kwangtung Provincial Bank 5 Yuan (5 Dollars) Circulate Currency Chung Hwa Book Co. Ltd.) |
| Reverse description | Green and purple note with an elaborate guilloche framework filling the entire field, surmounted by the bank name in bold lettering within a decorative arched banner at top. A large intaglio numeral 5 occupies the centre, flanked by horizontal panels bearing FIVE DOLLARS to the left and right and again below, with LOCAL CURRENCY inscribed beneath. Two red serial numbers appear at lower left and lower right, with the printer's imprint along the very bottom edge. |
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The Kwangtung Provincial Bank operated as a regional institution under Guangdong provincial authority during a period when the Nationalist central government in Nanjing was still consolidating financial control over semi-autonomous southern provinces. The 1936 date places this note in the final years before the Japanese invasion disrupted both the provincial banking structure and Chung Hwa's Shanghai printing operations entirely.
Chung Hwa Book Co. was one of the major commercial printers handling both securities and currency in Republican China, and their Shanghai facilities produced work of consistently high technical quality for the period.