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5 Yuan - Patriotic Lottery Issue 235
| Issuer | Bank of Taiwan |
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| Year | 1960 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of the Taipei City Museum (now National Taiwan Museum, est. 1915) at centre, framed by guilloche border. Denomination in Chinese characters at lower right, with issue number 235 below. Inscriptions identify the issuer and the patriotic lottery series. |
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| Obverse lettering | 臺灣省政府委託臺灣銀行發行 愛國獎券 台北市博物館 新台幣 伍圓 愛國獎券 第貳佰叁拾伍期 235 中央印製廠 維護 自由 (Translation: The Taiwan Provincial Government commissioned the Bank of Taiwan to issue the Patriotic Lottery Taipei City Museum New Taiwan Dollars Five yuan Patriotic Lottery Tickets Issue 235 235 Central Engraving and Printing Plant Uphold Freedom) |
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The Bank of Taiwan's lottery note issues of the late 1950s and early 1960s occupied an unusual institutional position — they were legal tender instruments that doubled as numbered lottery tickets, with prize draws administered separately from the banking system. Issue 235 falls within this established series, printed domestically by the Central Engraving and Printing Plant, which had relocated from the mainland to Taiwan following the Nationalist retreat in 1949.
The lottery note mechanism was a revenue tool the Nationalist government used to encourage savings while simultaneously funding public works, with winners paid from a designated reserve rather than from general circulation funds.