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5 Yuan Kinmen
| Issuer | Bank of Taiwan |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Size | 148 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark violet intaglio print on a multicolour guilloche underprint. A central portrait vignette of Sun Yat-sen occupies the face, flanked by red serial numbers and red official seals. Red overprints designate the note as a Kinmen (Quemoy) regional issue. |
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| Reverse description | Dark violet intaglio on a dense guilloche underprint with repeating 'BANK OF TAIWAN FIVE YUAN 5' lettering. The upper register carries an architectural vignette of the Bank of Taiwan headquarters with street scene, surmounted by the issuer inscription 'BANK OF TAIWAN' and a scrollwork cartouche reading 'FIVE YUAN'. A large ornate numeral '5' medallion anchors the lower centre, flanked by red Kinmen overprint characters (金門), with the date '1966' in a panel at the foot and denomination numerals '5' in each lower corner. |
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Kinmen (Quemoy) notes were a parallel military-civil currency system maintained by the Republic of China government specifically for the offshore island garrisons. The Bank of Taiwan issued distinct Kinmen series to prevent currency from circulating freely between the islands and Taiwan proper — a monetary firewall rooted in the very real possibility that Kinmen could fall to the PRC, as it nearly did during the 1958 Artillery Crisis when mainland forces fired an estimated 470,000 shells at the island over 44 days.
By 1966 the siege had long ended but the administrative separation remained. These notes were not legal tender on mainland Taiwan.