100 New Taiwan Dollars Banknote (Chung Shan Building)

100 Yuan Dollar (Issued 1911)

A hundred-yuan note represented a meaningful sum in everyday Taiwanese economic life, capable of covering household provisions, small trade transactions, and modest services for working families across the island. It was a denomination that passed through the hands of merchants, civil servants, and ordinary citizens alike, functioning as one of the most recognisable and practical units of exchange in daily commerce. The New Taiwan Dollar series to which this note belongs was central to the monetary stability Taiwan pursued following the establishment of the Republic of China on Taiwan, and the hundred-yuan denomination sat at a practical mid-point between petty cash and larger commercial sums. Its circulation touched nearly every corner of Taiwanese society during its time as legal tender.

On the front, the note is dominated by a formal portrait of Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the Republic of China and revered statesman whose image became a defining symbol across the New Taiwan Dollar series. The portrait is rendered in a detailed intaglio-style engraving, positioned in the upper-left quadrant of the note, showing Sun Yat-sen in a high-collared jacket and facing slightly to his right, with fine cross-hatched shading giving depth and texture to the likeness. The overall colour palette of the front is a warm, deep rose-red and pink, consistent across the background and primary design elements. To the upper-centre of the note, the traditional Chinese characters reading “中華民國” — Republic of China — appear in bold, and flanking text and ornamental borders frame the composition with intricate guilloché-style geometric patterning. The large denomination numeral “100” appears prominently in the upper-right corner, while the Chinese characters “壹佰圓” — one hundred yuan — are printed in bold across the lower-centre of the face. The issuing authority, “臺灣銀行” — Bank of Taiwan — is clearly inscribed in Chinese characters towards the lower-central area. The serial number BM742916YG appears twice, printed in red, positioned along the lower-left and lower-right margins. The background of the note features fine repeated guilloché patterns and decorative floral and scroll-work borders, typical of the security printing standards of this series. Small ornamental rosette designs and repeating geometric motifs fill the margins, contributing both aesthetic balance and anti-counterfeiting complexity. Chinese text along the very bottom edge references the printing authority.

The reverse of the note is printed in the same warm rose-red and pink tones as the front, centred on a detailed architectural vignette depicting the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei — a grand, multi-tiered classical Chinese-style structure with sweeping upturned eaves, a distinctive octagonal blue-tiled roof visible in its white-painted form here rendered entirely in the note’s red monochrome palette, set against a finely engraved background. The building is shown from a slight frontal perspective, with its broad ceremonial plaza and flanking colonnaded wings clearly visible, conveying the monumental scale of the structure. To the upper-left of the reverse, the denomination characters “壹佰圓” are repeated, and the numeral “100” appears again in the lower-right area, framed by ornamental scroll and floral border work consistent with the front design. Fine guilloché patterning and repeating geometric motifs fill the background behind the central architectural image, adding texture and depth across the entire surface of the note. The bottom edge carries further Chinese text indicating the year of the Republic of China calendar in which the note was issued.

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