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50 000 Customs Gold Units
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Sun Yat-sen in a circular portrait with guilloche surround, set against a fine rose-purple underprint. Denomination panels reading 伍萬 appear at all four corners, with the bank title 中央銀行 and serial number above the portrait. A rectangular guilloche panel below the portrait bears the denomination inscription 關金伍萬圓, with the date inscription and issuer seals at the base. |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀央中 關 金 伍 萬 圓 印年七十三國民華中 (Translation: Central Bank of China Fifty Thousand Customs Gold Units Printed in the 37th year of the Republic of China) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Central Bank of China building in Shanghai, a multi-storey neoclassical structure with a prominent clock tower, rendered in fine intaglio engraving within a guilloche border. The bank title THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA arches above the building vignette, while the numeral 50000 and the written denomination FIFTY THOUSAND CUSTOMS GOLD UNITS appear below. Two manuscript signatures of bank officials are printed at the lower centre, with the numeral 50000 repeated in each corner. |
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