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5 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Taiwan |
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| Year | 1934-1942 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in grey-green and black intaglio, with an intricate guilloche border incorporating floral rosettes at each corner. A vignette at left centre shows a Shinto torii gate set along a tree-lined stone path leading to a shrine. The large kanji denomination 五圓 (Five Yen) is printed in bold characters to the right of the vignette, flanked by vertical columns of Japanese text giving the bank name and redemption clause, with a red circular Bank of Taiwan seal and the imprint of the Imperial Japanese Government Printing Bureau along the lower margin. |
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| Variants | P#1926a - Issued note P#1926s1 - Specimen P#1926s2 - Specimen with normal serial # |
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The Bank of Taiwan was a colonial institution chartered in 1899 to manage Japanese financial interests across Taiwan, and its notes circulated not only on the island but throughout Japan's broader Pacific sphere — the South China coast, parts of Southeast Asia, and the Nanyo trading zone. By the mid-1930s the bank had become deeply entangled in military financing, and this series ran through the early war years partly to supply those expanded obligations.
The Cabinet Printing Bureau, Naikaku Insatsukyoku, was Japan's primary security printer and handled the full run. Wartime paper shortages affected later printings in this series — notes from the 1940–1942 portion tend to show thinner, more fibrous stock than earlier impressions.