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6 Coppers Ho Pei Metropolitan Bank
| Issuer | Ho Pei Metropolitan Bank (河北銀錢局) |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Size | 104 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 河北銀錢局 中華民國二十七年 公私款項一律通用 陸枚 北京印刷局 (Translation: Ho Pei Metropolitan Bank 27th year of the Republic of China In common use for government and private payment 6 Coppers (0.6 Cents) Beijing Printing Bureau) |
| Reverse description | Brown vertical-format reverse printed in the same single colour as the obverse. An intricate guilloche underprint fills the field, with a central floral medallion bearing the large Chinese characters 銅元陸枚 (Six Copper Coins) arranged vertically. The numeral 6 appears in bold type at both lateral centres, repeated again in smaller form at all four corners within ornamental cartouches. The English legend SIX COPPER COINS is set in a plain panel at the lower centre. |
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The Ho Pei Metropolitan Bank (河北銀錢局) was a provincial institution operating under Japanese-sponsored administration in Hebei during the occupation period. By 1938, northern China's monetary system was being systematically restructured by Japanese authorities, and provincial copper-unit notes like this one served the lowest tier of day-to-day transactions — markets, transport, small retail — where Federal Reserve Bank of China paper hadn't yet fully displaced older habits.
The Beijing Printing Bureau had been producing official Chinese currency for decades before the occupation and continued under the new administration with much of the same technical staff. The 6-copper denomination is notably awkward, suggesting it was calibrated to some specific local pricing convention rather than a round-figure monetary unit.