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5 Yuan Shantung Min Sheng Bank
| Issuer | Shantung Min Sheng Bank |
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| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark green on a pale yellow-buff ground, the obverse carries a central oval vignette of farmers tilling paddy fields before a mountain landscape, framed by ornate scrollwork borders. The bank name 山東省民生銀行 is inscribed in a single horizontal line at the top, flanked on both sides by scalloped denomination panels reading 伍圓 in large Chinese characters. Two red square official seals appear in the lower corners, with the promise clause 憑票即付國幣伍圓 and the date in the Republican calendar centered below the vignette; the imprint of the Shantung Provincial Government Printing Bureau runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark green, dominated by a large central circular guilloche medallion bearing the bold numeral 5, surrounded by intricate lathe-work and engine-turned rosette patterns that fill the entire field. Two scalloped side panels, each inscribed 5 YUAN, flank the central medallion, and the legend THE SHANTUNG MIN SHENG BANK arcs across the upper portion of the medallion. The date 1940 appears in Western numerals within a decorative cartouche at the foot of the central design. |
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The Shantung Min Sheng Bank was established under the Japanese-backed provincial administration during the occupation of Shandong, making this 1940 issue a product of a collaborationist financial structure rather than any legitimate Chinese governmental authority. Notes from these puppet regional banks circulated alongside — and were often forced to displace — Nationalist and older provincial currency in occupied territories.
Printing by the Shantung Provincial Government Printing Bureau kept production entirely under local occupying authority control, with no recourse to the more sophisticated security printing facilities available in Shanghai or abroad.