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50 Chiao / 500 Cents
| Issuer | Bank of the Eastern Three Provinces |
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| Year | 1913 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S2877 |
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| Reverse description | Uniform olive-green note printed with an all-over fine geometric lathe-work underprint. The bank title 'THE BANK OF THE EASTERN THREE PROVINCES' arcs across the upper portion, below which the promise text reads 'TO PAY WITH SILVER CENTS'. The large central legend 'FIFTY TEN CENTS PIECES' is set in bold serif type, with the full bearer clause 'PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND FIFTY TEN CENTS PIECES LOCAL CURRENCY AT ITS OFFICE HERE' in smaller type beneath. Numeral '50' appears in each corner, with Chinese denomination 伍拾角 in cartouches at left and right. |
| Reverse lettering | THE BANK OF THE EASTERN THREE PROVINCES TO PAY WITH SILVER CENTS FIFTY TEN CENTS PIECES PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND FIFTY TEN CENTS PIECES LOCAL CURRENCY AT ITS OFFICE HERE 伍拾角 |
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The Bank of the Eastern Three Provinces — established to serve Manchuria's three northeastern provinces of Fengtian, Jilin, and Heilongjiang — was a regional institution whose notes circulated in an area simultaneously coveted by Russian commercial interests, Japanese military planners, and competing Chinese warlord factions. The dual denomination printed on this note, expressing value in both Chiao and Cents, reflects the monetary confusion of early Republican Manchuria, where multiple units, currencies, and exchange rates operated in parallel.
The bank's notes from this period are scarce survivors. The institutional turbulence of the warlord era and Japan's eventual seizure of Manchuria in 1931 ensured that most surviving paper from these early provincial banks was either destroyed or lost.