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50 Yuan Bank of Central China
| Issuer | Bank of Central China (华中银行) |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on plain paper. Central vignette presents a panoramic view of a multi-arched bridge in the foreground with a hilltop pavilion and pagoda tower rising against a lightly shaded sky in the background. Chinese characters reading 華中銀行 (Bank of Central China) appear at upper right, with the denomination 伍拾圓 in vertical arrangement at left; a rectangular text box at lower left contains issue date and branch inscriptions, and the printer's imprint appears at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print with an overall guilloche underprint pattern. The denomination numeral 50 appears in large format at centre within an ornate circular guilloche rosette, and is repeated in each of the four corners within scallop-bordered panels. Symmetrical decorative scrollwork and foliate arabesques fill the intervening spaces, with small star devices flanking the central design at mid-left and mid-right. |
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The Bank of Central China (华中银行) was a Communist Party financial institution established in 1945 to consolidate currency control across the Liberated Areas of central China — essentially a tool for displacing Nationalist-issued notes and local scrip in regions the CCP was actively contesting. The 1946 50 Yuan note belongs to the early phase of that currency unification effort, issued while the civil war was still technically in a ceasefire period following the Marshall Mission negotiations.
The "b" suffix in P#S3386b typically denotes a color or signature variant within the series. Documentation on individual signatories for this bank remains thin in Western references.