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5000 Yuan Central Bank of China
| Uitgever | Central Bank of China |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1947 |
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| Drukker | Central Engraving and Printing Plant |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Portrait vignette of Sun Yat-sen at left within an ornate frame, set against a blue intaglio print on light green guilloche underprint. The denomination 伍仟圓 appears in a large central cartouche surrounded by scrollwork. Serial number in red appears twice at upper left and upper right, with two red seal stamps flanking the central vignette at lower centre. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Intricate green guilloche design covers the entire field, with four corner vignettes bearing urn motifs and arabesque ornamental borders. The denomination 伍仟圓 is repeated in a central oval medallion, with the numeral 5000 printed in each corner. Two manuscript signatures of bureau chiefs appear at left and right of centre. |
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| Opmerkingen |
By 1947, the Central Bank of China was printing in denominations that would have been unthinkable five years earlier. This 5,000 Yuan note emerged mid-hyperinflation, a crisis driven by wartime deficit spending and the cost of fighting both Japan and the Communists simultaneously — the money supply had expanded roughly 300-fold between 1937 and 1945 alone, and the trajectory only worsened afterward.
The Central Engraving and Printing Plant struggled to keep pace with demand, and quality control across the series is inconsistent. Notes from this period frequently show uneven ink distribution and misaligned overprints — not errors per se, but predictable consequences of a facility running beyond its designed capacity.
The 1948 currency reform replaced the Yuan with the Gold Yuan at 3,000,000 to 1, rendering this note worthless within months of issue.