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2 Jiao
| Issuer | Taiwan |
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| Year | 1950 |
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| Value | 2 Jiao = 20 Fen (0.2 TWD) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | A detailed outline map of Taiwan (including the Pescadores archipelago) occupies the central field, rendered against a horizontally lined background. The denomination is expressed in Chinese characters flanking the map, with '貳' (two) to the right and '角' (jiao) to the left, and '省' (province) and '灣台' (Taiwan) inscribed within the map area. The design is enclosed by the same decorative rope border as the obverse. |
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Issued in the first year of the Republic of China government's consolidation on Taiwan following the Nationalist retreat from the mainland, this aluminum 2 jiao was part of an emergency monetary rebuild after the catastrophic hyperinflation that had destroyed confidence in the old fabi and gold yuan currencies. The New Taiwan Dollar system, introduced in June 1949, was backed by a strict issuance limit and gold reserves transferred from the mainland — a deliberate structural break from the policies that had collapsed the ROC economy before Kuomintang forces withdrew.
Aluminum was chosen for fractional coinage purely on cost grounds, with base metal supplies constrained by the island's limited industrial infrastructure at the time.