Currency

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Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates: [ca. 1940] (indexed as 1940)
Level: item
Scope & content: Brown and blue 10 Yuan or cents bill issued by the Bank of Ming Kuo. Obverse: blue scene of tall pagoda and compound surrounded by nature, bordered by Chinese text on either side with red flower-petal type graphics; red "NO36322" on either side at the top, with red Chinese letters vertically on either side, a square red seal with Chinese text on the b.l. and a signature on the b.r.; yellow patterned background. Reverse: 2 brown traditional pavilions with walkways over reflective water, bordered by fancy curls and "10" in large numbers on either side; background of wavy lines and dots on either side. Bottom says "CURENCY / FORR THE / OTHER WORLD".
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Extent: Currency : paper : printed : ink : brown, blue, beige, red, yellow ; Ht: 3 1/4 in. x W: 5 3/4 in.
Genre / form: object
Format: Object / artifact
Text in the image: 冥國銀行拾圓西方路上可通行通用冥鈔當現金NO 36322Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
Language: English
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