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5 Yuan Provincial Bank of The West of Tientsin Pukow Railway
| Issuer | Provincial Bank of the West of Tientsin Pukow Railway |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1935-1946) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue-black ink on coarse yellow-brown paper, the obverse carries a plain rectangular border with a brick-pattern frame. At the top, the bank name is inscribed in Chinese characters (津浦路西地方银行). The central vignette consists of a cloud-shaped cartouche bearing the denomination characters 伍圓 (Five Yuan); to the left is a small landscape vignette of a fortified building with a flag, and to the right a rural scene of agricultural workers in a field beneath a rising sun. A bottom panel carries a serial number and the date inscription in Chinese, with the denomination numerals 伍 repeated in the upper corners. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in teal-green ink on the same coarse yellow-brown paper, the reverse is enclosed within a simple decorative border with a wavy guilloche band along the right edge and a dotted ornamental frame. The English bank name THE PROVINCIAL BANK OF THE WEST OF TIENTSIN PUKOW RAILWAY is lettered in two lines across the upper portion, and the denomination is indicated in a rectangular box reading FIVE YUAN. A small circular vignette appears to the lower left, and the denomination numeral 5 is repeated in the outer corners. |
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The Tientsin-Pukow Railway — running roughly 1,000 kilometers between Tianjin and Nanjing's northern bank — was split administratively during the Second Sino-Japanese War into northern and southern sections, each falling under different Japanese-puppet oversight. This note was issued by the bank serving the western administrative zone of the northern section, a narrow institutional arrangement that existed primarily to manage railway payroll and operational expenses under occupation conditions.
The unlisted Pick status reflects how poorly documented puppet-state railway bank issues from this period remain. Many were printed in small batches, circulated within tightly confined geographic corridors, and survived in low numbers.