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5 Yuan antedated
| Issuer | Bank of Taiwan |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Currency | New dollar (1949-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in an oval portrait frame, with denomination rendered in Chinese majuscule numerals. Issuer and date inscriptions appear in Chinese characters within the surrounding guilloche border work. |
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| Reverse description | Upper panel presents a vignette of the Bank of Taiwan headquarters building in red intaglio print, with a lower panel containing a large numeral '5' superimposed over a red outline map of the island of Taiwan, all printed in a monochromatic red on a vertically oriented format. |
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The Bank of Taiwan's 1949 5 Yuan note belongs to the opening phase of Taiwan's monetary separation from the mainland — the Bank of Taiwan having been designated the island's sole currency authority in June 1946, inheriting the Japanese colonial infrastructure almost wholesale. The Central Engraving and Printing Factory in Taipei, originally established under Japanese administration, was retained and put directly to work producing the new series.
The "antedated" designation is the critical detail here. Notes in this series carry dates earlier than their actual production, a deliberate administrative practice used during the chaotic currency transitions of 1949 as the Nationalist government collapsed on the mainland. The pick reference P#1953 suggests catalog classification by the year the dating question was formally resolved, not the year of printing.