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50 Fen
| Issuer | Chi Tung Bank |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Yen (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | 冀東銀行 伍角 五 5 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and displays a central rectangular panel enclosed within an intricate guilloche border. The denomination '50 FEN' is boldly rendered in large Latin numerals and letters at the centre of the panel, flanked to the right by Chinese characters '伍角' repeating the value. The overall design is spare, relying entirely on the geometric lathe-work pattern for visual structure. |
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The Chi Tung Bank was a Japanese puppet institution established in 1935 to serve the East Hopei Autonomous Council, a collaborationist buffer state carved out of northeastern Hebei province. Notes like this 50 Fen piece circulated in a politically severed zone designed to weaken Nationalist monetary control north of the Great Wall before the full-scale invasion of 1937 made such administrative fictions unnecessary.
The bank was dissolved and its currency rendered worthless following the reorganization of Japanese-controlled financial structures in northern China under the Federal Reserve Bank of China, established in 1938.