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.
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Central Bank of Manchukuo, Manchukuo government
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Manchukuo
- Medium
- Banknotes and coins
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Manchukuo Government
- Leader
- Zhang Jinghui
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Religion
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (PD China: organisational work, term expired before 1 Jan 1996; Commons: not copyrighted)
Scan by Wikimedia Commons user MChew of a 1944 Central Bank of Manchukuo note; Commons: Public domain
Text on the object
[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]
[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.
