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50 Cents Quemoy
| Issuer | Bank of Taiwan |
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| Year | 1950-3861 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central portrait vignette of Dr. Sun Yat-sen within a guilloche underprint, flanked by denomination counters at each corner. Two red seals appear below at left and right, with the serial number in red. Locale overprint 金門 (Kinmen) appears on either side of the value panel within an ornamental border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 BANK OF TAIWAN 金門 金門 50 FIFTY CENTS 50 50 (Translation: Bank of Taiwan Kinmen Kinmen 50 Fifty cents 50 50) |
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The Quemoy (Kinmen) supplementary currency series was issued specifically for use on the offshore islands held by the Republic of China government after its retreat from the mainland in 1949. Restricting currency circulation to the islands was a deliberate administrative measure — standard Bank of Taiwan notes were not legal tender on Quemoy, and vice versa, preventing currency flows that could complicate military logistics or be exploited across the strait.
The R-prefix Pick numbers designate the entire Quemoy regional series. This 50-cent denomination sits at the low end of that series, issued for a garrison economy where small transactions dominated daily life among soldiers and the local civilian population.