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50 Yuan Bank of Communications
| Issuer | Bank of Communications |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Printer | American Banknote Corporation (American Bank Note Company), Ottawa, New York, United States (1795-date) |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print on a multicolour guilloche underprint. A central vignette, framed by ornate scrollwork, presents two steam trains traversing a mountain pass, rendered in fine line engraving. The denomination 伍拾圓 appears in large Chinese characters in the left and right panels, with the bank name 交通銀行 across the top and the Republic year inscription along the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀通交 伍 拾 圓 印年十三國民華中 (Translation: Bank of Communications Fifty Yuan Printed year 30 of the Chinese Republic) |
| Reverse description | Brown intaglio print on a plain ground. The central vignette presents a large steam-powered ocean liner under full smoke amid sailing vessels on choppy seas, engraved in fine detail. Two ornate guilloche rosettes flank the vignette, each enclosing the numeral 50, with two manuscript facsimile signatures below the vignette and the denomination cartouche reading FIFTY YUAN at centre bottom, flanked by the date 1941. |
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