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50 Yuan Central Bank of China
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sun Yat-sen in an oval vignette at right, set against a red guilloche underprint with floral rosette patterns. The large Chinese denomination characters 伍拾圓 appear at centre-left, flanked by the bank name 中央銀行 at top and the place name Chungking (重慶) at both sides. Serial number appears twice in the upper portion, with the Republic year inscription at lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | 中央銀行 伍拾圓 重慶 中華民國二十九年 (Translation: Central Bank of China / Fifty Yuan / Chungking / Printed in the 29th year of the Republic of China) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche rosette framed by intricate lathe-work border patterns, with the numeral 50 at centre. The issuer name THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA and place name CHUNGKING appear at the top, while FIFTY YUAN and the year 1940 are inscribed at the bottom. Two facsimile signature lines for General Manager and Assistant General Manager appear below the central vignette. |
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