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500 Yuan Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1935-1946) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on a yellow-tan underprint. The central vignette presents an agricultural ploughing scene with figures working the fields. The bank name 冀南銀行 is inscribed at top centre, the denomination 伍百圓 appears in Chinese characters on both flanking panels, and the date inscription runs along the lower border. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF CHINAN 500 FIVE HUNDRED YUAN 1945 |
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The Bank of Chinan (齊南銀行) was a Japanese-sponsored institution established during the occupation of Shandong province, issuing currency to facilitate economic control of the region. By 1945 — the final year of Japanese occupation in China — confidence in occupation-backed paper was collapsing, and large denominations like this 500 Yuan were partly a response to accelerating inflation rather than genuine commercial demand.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this firmly in the "Specialized" Chinese issues volume, a category that has historically received inconsistent scholarly attention, leaving some printing and emission details for this series poorly documented.