CHINA--PUPPET BANKS. Hua-Hsing Commercial Bank. 5 Yuan, 1938. P-J98a.(S/M#H184-12) This wonderfully colorful design shows with deep green borders, black overprinted serial and block numbers, brown under-prints and guilloches at the counters and ornamental protector design at the bank name in lilac at top center. Central vignette shows with arched bridge with house at left and pagoda in distance. Back shown with president Chen Chin Tao overprint at lower center with light under-print at left and right of the geometrically intense design. Only a touch of circulation is mentioned on the fully original and silk fiber laden paper. We have handled only a single other for the catalog number which was also an About Uncirculated piece with a close serial number. That note realized $4,140.00 as lot 11107 in our March 2011 Baltimore sale.PMG About Uncirculated 55 EPQ