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50 Yuan Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan |
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| Year | 1939 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 冀南銀行 伍拾圓 平原 中華民國二十八年 |
| Reverse description | Entirely printed in red. The bank title BANK OF CHINAN appears in a banner at top centre, above a central vignette of mountains with ornate guilloche surrounds. The numeral 50 appears in large counters at left and right within decorative oval frames, with FIFTY YUAN and the date 1939 inscribed at centre bottom. |
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The Bank of Chinan was a regional puppet institution established under Japanese occupation in Shandong province, and notes from this bank circulated in an economy deliberately engineered to drain real resources — silver, commodities, goods — from occupied Chinese territory. The 50 Yuan denomination sits at the upper end of this bank's wartime issues, large enough that most examples encountered genuine use rather than sitting idle.
The S3070 series carries multiple signature varieties, and the "E" suffix here denotes a specific signing combination that collectors have found considerably harder to source than the earlier variants in the same run.