Catalog
50 Yuan multicolored background
| Issuer | Bank of Taiwan |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Size | 157.5 × 68.5 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 伍 伍 拾 拾 行銀灣臺 圓拾伍 年三十五國民華中 伍 伍 拾 拾 (Translation: Bank of Taiwan Fifty Yuan The 53rd year of the Republic of China) |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central vignette of the Presidential Office Building in Taipei, a grand Western-style edifice rendered in fine intaglio line work, flanked by guilloche panels. The denomination and bank title are repeated in Chinese characters within decorative borders at left and right. |
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The Bank of Taiwan functioned as Taiwan's de facto central bank from 1949 until the Central Bank of China resumed operations in 1961 — but even after that transition, the Bank of Taiwan continued issuing its own New Taiwan Dollar notes under a parallel arrangement that persisted well into the 1970s. This 1964 note falls squarely in that overlap period, when two institutions were technically both authorized to put currency into circulation.
The "multicolored background" designation in the catalog distinguishes this from an earlier printing of the same type with a simpler background treatment — a detail that matters for attribution but is easy to overlook without direct comparison.