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| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Value | 500 000 Yuan (500 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀央中 券圓金 圓萬拾伍 司公限有份股局書華中 (Translation: Central Bank of China Gold Yuan note Five Hundred Thousand Yuan Chung Hwa Book Co. Ltd.) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a multi-tiered Chinese temple or pavilion set within a mountainous landscape, rendered in fine intaglio line work. The denomination numeral 500,000 appears four times in guilloche cartouches at the corners, with elaborate scrollwork borders framing the entire design. Two facsimile signatures appear below the central vignette, identified as General Manager and Governor respectively, with the English denomination legend and date at the bottom. |
| Reverse lettering | THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND GOLD YUAN 1949 CHUNG HWA BOOK CO., LTD. GENERAL MANAGER GOVERNOR |
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