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50 Yuan Bank of Pei Hai
| Issuer | Bank of Pei Hai (北海银行) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress print with a decorative floral border frame. At centre, a vignette of a figure engaged in winnowing rice, rendered in a vigorous line-engraved style. The bank title 北海銀行 appears across the top in Chinese characters, with the denomination 區拾圓 displayed at lower centre within a scalloped cartouche; serial number panels flank the composition on both sides. |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress print. The reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche medallion bearing the numeral '50', enclosed within an elaborate interlocking scroll underprint. Denomination numerals '50' appear in each corner within plain rectangular panels, and the English inscription 'BANK OF PAI HAI' is printed across the top margin. |
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The Bank of Pei Hai was the regional bank of the Shandong-Jiangsu border area controlled by the Chinese Communist Party during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the civil war period that followed. Its notes circulated in liberated zones where Nationalist currency was actively suppressed — holding or spending Guomindang fabi in CCP-controlled territory carried real risk by the mid-1940s, which drove acceptance of Pei Hai notes even among populations that might otherwise have resisted them.
1945 was a transitional year: Japan's surrender in August threw currency conditions across occupied and semi-occupied China into sudden chaos, and Pei Hai issues from that year were produced under conditions of both military pressure and rapid institutional expansion. Production quality varies considerably across the series.