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title: 滿洲中央銀行百圓 (Central Bank of Manchukuo, 100 yuan note, 1944)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/manchukuo-central-bank-100-yuan-confucius-1944/
description: 'Obverse of a 100-yuan note of a state set up under Japanese military occupation: an elderly bearded man in scholar''s dress with a topknot (the Commons…'
section: Collection
---

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# 滿洲中央銀行百圓 (Central Bank of Manchukuo, 100 yuan note, 1944)

Obverse of a 100-yuan note of a state set up under Japanese military occupation: an elderly bearded man in scholar's dress with a topknot (the Commons category identifies Confucius) at right, a tiered pavilion building among trees at left, dragons coiling in the corner panels and a flower-shaped seal at top centre, under the bank's name in large characters. The tell is the borrowed authority: a classical sage's portrait takes the place a ruler's or founder's portrait would occupy on a note, so the new state's money carries the moral prestige of an older tradition.

## Text on the object

Original (Chinese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[top, arc:] 滿洲中央銀行
[centre:] 百圓
[two lower panels:] 100 YUAN
[corner panels, rotated:] 百圓
[serial, red:] 0906337   35
[two red seals:] [illegible]
[small line at foot:] [illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[top, arc:] Central Bank of Manchukuo
[centre:] One hundred yuan
[two lower panels:] 100 YUAN
[corner panels, rotated:] One hundred yuan
[serial, red:] 0906337   35
[two red seals:] [illegible]
[small line at foot:] [illegible]
```

Machine reading of a 960 px scan. The foot line and seals could not be read.

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