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500 Yuan Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 冀南銀行 伍百圓 民國三十一年印 |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print with an overall fine guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The English bank name BANK OF CHINAN is inscribed at top centre, with the numeral 500 repeated in large figures at left and right within interlocking lace-pattern panels. The legend FIVE HUNDRED YUAN appears at lower centre, with the year 1942 below. |
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The Bank of Chinan (齊南銀行) was a Japanese-sponsored institution established to facilitate monetary control over occupied Shandong province. Like other collaborationist banks operating under Japanese occupation, it issued currency intended to displace circulating Nationalist and provincial notes — the 1942 series came at a moment when Japanese military authorities were pressing hard to consolidate regional currencies ahead of shifting front lines.
P#S3079 is catalogued in the "S" prefix series, indicating regional or provisional status rather than a central government issue. High-denomination notes from occupation-period collaborationist banks tend to survive in better condition than their face value suggests — hoarding was common among a population reluctant to spend currency whose future was uncertain.