WWII Era Chinese Banknote 10 Yuan. Altered from Szechuan Bank to Farmers Bank. 1937

This bank note offers a history lesson like no other I've seen! According to the AsiaMoney website on Weebly, http://asiamoney.weebly.com/farmers-bank-of-china.html, Chiang Kai-shek merged a number of provincial banks, and they ultimately became the Farmers Bank of China. Apparently, as this note indicates, some of the banknotes from the provincial banks were simply stamped over to make them currency for the new bank! In the microscope video, you can see that a stamp was made to cover over the printed bank name, which was originally "The Szechuan Province Bank!" On the other side, you can see that some information has been covered by an obscuring stamp, and it's possible that new serial number were stamped on? A note about these Chinese Banknotes: my father served in the US forces stationed in Shanghai as a payroll sergeant. As kids we loved to hear Daddy's war stories, and I remember him explaining to us how China printed a bunch of money that they couldn't back up, and it was eventually devalued. When the cururency on hand became worthless, the US government sent in American money in order for the soldiers to be paid. When asked what he should do with the worthless Chinese currency, his superior officer told him "I don't care if you decorate your Christmas tree with it!" That's exactly what they did, and that's why many of them have tape marks on the sides! I found them taped together among his memorabilia, and separated them by cutting the tape so as not to damage the bill. No extra charge for the story!