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50 Dollars The Futien Bank
| Issuer | The Futien Bank (富滇銀行) |
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| Year | 1928-1929 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1834-1949) |
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| Obverse description | Green ink on multicolour underprint; central vignette of a jade rooster and a golden horse standing upon two globes, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Denomination numeral and bank title appear in Chinese characters, with the Republican era date (Year 17) inscribed below. Guilloche lathe-work borders frame the design on all sides. |
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| Obverse lettering | 富滇銀行 給位銀 特即要 民國十七年 (Translation: Futien Bank Special silver issue Year 17 of the Republic) |
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The Futien Bank — better known as the Fudian Bank — was a provincial institution operating under the Yunnan warlord government, and by the late 1920s its notes were circulating in a region effectively independent from Nationalist control in Nanjing. The American Bank Note Company printed this issue, as it did much of the Yunnan provincial currency in this period, working from New York on commission from a government Nanjing would not have recognized as fully legitimate.
Yunnan's geographic isolation — bordered by French Indochina, Burma, and Tibet — meant its currency operated in a largely separate monetary orbit, with cross-border trade in the frontier zones giving these notes a reach beyond the province itself.