50 New Taiwan Dollars Banknote (Chung Shan Building)

50 Yuan Dollar (Issued 1911)

The financial infrastructure of Taiwan in the early twentieth century was shaped profoundly by the establishment of the Bank of Taiwan, which served as the principal currency-issuing authority for the island and acted as the cornerstone of monetary policy throughout successive periods of governance. The New Taiwan Dollar series represented a deliberate effort to stabilise and modernise the currency system, replacing earlier inflationary issues and anchoring public confidence in a reformed monetary order. The 50 Yuan denomination occupied a meaningful position within everyday commerce, representing a mid-to-high value note that circulated widely across both urban and rural economies. Notes of this series bore the institutional authority of the Bank of Taiwan, printed in Chinese as 臺灣銀行, and were designed to project both governmental legitimacy and financial order.

On the front, the note is dominated by a finely engraved portrait of Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the Republic of China and revolutionary statesman whose image became the defining symbol of Republic of China currency across successive decades. The portrait is rendered in intaglio style, positioned to the left of centre, and depicts Sun Yat-sen in a high-collared jacket, his gaze directed slightly to his right with a composed and authoritative expression. The overall colour palette of the front is a rich purple-violet, applied across both the engraved portrait and the surrounding decorative framework. At the centre of the note, the denomination is expressed in large Chinese characters reading 伍拾圓, meaning fifty yuan, set within an intricately printed floral and geometric motif rendered in blue and red tones against the violet background. The issuing authority, 臺灣銀行 (Bank of Taiwan), is printed in Chinese characters beneath the central denomination panel, whilst the national designation 中華民國 (Republic of China) appears prominently across the upper portion of the note. The serial number P102063X is printed in red and appears twice — once in the lower left of the main note face and once on a separate attached stub to the right. The denomination numeral 50 appears in the upper left and lower right corners in Western Arabic numerals. To the right of the main note body, a detachable coupon or stub is visible, bearing a decorative geometric guilloche pattern in blue and red, a rosette motif at its centre, and a repeated display of the serial number P102063X alongside the numeral 50, the entire stub framed by fine concentric line-work borders.

The reverse of the note is printed predominantly in shades of violet-purple, blue, and gold, with an elaborate guilloche border pattern filling the margins on all sides, composed of interlocking diamond and floral motifs with fine cross-hatched interior fills rendered in pale blue, pink, and gold tones. The central vignette occupies a prominent position and depicts a large classical building in a detailed intaglio engraving, identifiable as the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, shown from a frontal perspective with its sweeping traditional Chinese roofline, tiered eaves, and wide colonnaded frontage. The surrounding landscape includes trees and open grounds rendered in fine line engraving. Below the central vignette, a line of Chinese characters reads 中華民國六十一年製版, indicating the year of plate manufacture in the Republic of China calendar. The denomination 伍拾圓 appears in Chinese characters in the upper left and lower right, with the Western numeral 50 in the upper right corner. The left margin of the reverse carries two decorative panels featuring guilloché rosette patterns with floral cross motifs in blue and red, along with the numeral 50 in a shaped cartouche. The entire composition is enclosed within a multi-rule border of fine purple and gold lines, maintaining the restrained but technically accomplished aesthetic of the series throughout.

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