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1 New Dollar Chiang Kai-shek
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Currency | New dollar (1949-date) |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing effigy of President Chiang Kai-shek occupying the central field, rendered in a plain, close-cropped portrait style without adornment. A circular Chinese legend arcs around the upper periphery reading 蔣總統八秩華誕 (President Chiang Kai-shek's 80th Birthday), while the issuer name 中央銀行 (Central Bank of China) is inscribed along the lower border flanking the truncation. |
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| Reverse script | Chinese |
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This issue belongs to the post-retreat coinage of the Republic of China government on Taiwan, which relocated to the island in 1949 following the Communist victory on the mainland. The Central Bank of China — pointedly retaining that name rather than adopting any Taiwan-specific identity — continued issuing coinage under the fiction of a government-in-exile with legitimate claim to all of China, a political posture that shaped every institutional decision through the 1960s and beyond.
The copper-nickel composition adopted for this series replaced earlier silver-bearing alloys as Taiwan's postwar economy stabilized under U.S. aid programs.