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$2 denom (#11896) (China usage only)

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Desc: $2

Currency: Chinese yuan (100c=1$)

Numerical sorting value: 400


Equivalent denoms: $2.00 (1), 2.00$ (2)
Unused: 2$

Users of this denom: China (40 stamps, 1897-1949), Japanese occupation of China (4 stamps, 1941-1942), Japanese occupation of Central China (8 stamps, 1943-1944), Inner Mongolia (2 stamps, 1941-1945), Honan (2 stamps, 1941), Hopei (2 stamps, 1941), Shansi (2 stamps, 1941), Shantung (1 stamp, 1941), Japanese occupation of North China (6 stamps, 1943-1945), Japanese occupation of South China (4 stamps, 1942), Northeastern Provinces (6 stamps, 1946-1947), Szechwan (1 stamp, 1933), Yunnan (3 stamps, 1926-1932), Manchuria (1 stamp, 1927), Sinkiang (3 stamps, 1916-1932), Northeast China Liberation Area (4 stamps, 1946-1947), North China Liberation Area (4 stamps, 1946-1949), Northwest China Liberation Area (2 stamps, 1948-1949), East China Liberation Area (4 stamps, 1949), French offices in China (1 stamp, 1922), British offices in China (2 stamps, 1917-1922), Italian offices in Peking (1 stamp, 1918), Italian offices in Tientsin (1 stamp, 1918), US offices in China (1 stamp, 1919) Show with all usages

Used by 40 stamps of China: (See all uses as list)

8/16/1897 $2 org&yel issue=1897 dt=Imperial Chinese Post d=wild goose (1897) wmk=yin-yang
1/28/1898 $2 issue=1898 dt=Chinese Imperial Post d=wild goose (1898) wmk=yin-yang
1906 $2 red&yel issue=1900 dt=Chinese Imperial Post d=wild goose (1898)
1912 $2 red&yel issue=1912a dt=Chinese Imperial Post d=wild goose (1898) ovpt=type1 oc=blk on=issue=1900-$2
1912 $2 red&yel issue=1912c dt=Chinese Imperial Post d=wild goose (1898) ovpt=type3 slanted oc=blk on=issue=1900-$2
1/30/1912 $2 red&yel issue=Foochow neutrality dt=Chinese Imperial Post d=wild goose (1898) ovpt=Foochow oc=blk on=issue=1900-$2
3/20/1912 $2 red&yel issue=Nanking neutrality dt=Chinese Imperial Post d=wild goose (1898) ovpt=Nanking oc=blk on=issue=1900-$2-red&yel
12/14/1912 $2 issue=1912d d=Sun Yatsen (1912)
12/14/1912 $2 yelbrn issue=1912e d=Pres Yuan Shih-kai
5/5/1913 $2 bl&blk issue=1913 d=Hall of Classics gateway (1913)
1915 $2 bl&blk issue=1915 d=Hall of Classics gateway (1913)
1923 $2 bl&redbrn issue=1923 d=Hall of Classics gateway (1923)
1931 $2 bl&orgbrn issue=1931a d=Sun Yatsen (1931) var=double circle
1931 $2 bl&orgbrn issue=1931b d=Sun Yatsen (1931) var=single heavy circle
11/10/1938 $2 issue=1938 d=Sun Yat-sen (1938) var=1 perf=12.5
11/10/1938 $2 issue=1938 d=Sun Yat-sen (1938) var=2 perf=12.5
11/10/1938 $2 issue=1938 d=Sun Yat-sen (1938) var=3 perf=12.5
12/6/1939 $2 bl&yelbrn issue=1939 secret marks d=Sun Yat-sen (1938) var=secret mark perf=14
1940 $2 dpbl&yelbrn issue=1940c wmk d=Sun Yatsen (1940) var=secret mark wmk=yu perf=14
1940 $2 issue=1940a d=Sun Yatsen (1940) var=joined character perf=14
1940 $2 issue=1940b d=Sun Yatsen (1940) var=joined character wmk=yu perf=12.5
1941 $2 bl&blk issue=1941 d=Sun Yatsen (1941) perf=12
1942 $2 blgrn issue=1942a d=Sun Yatsen (1942)
1944 $2 blgrn issue=1944a d=Sun Yatsen (1942) var=secret mark
1944 $2 dpbl issue=1944a d=Sun Yatsen (1942) var=secret mark
1944 $2 viobrn issue=1944a d=Sun Yatsen (1942) var=secret mark
1944 $2 graybrn issue=1944b d=Sun Yatsen (1944)
12/25/1944 $2 graygrn issue=Kuomintang 50th
1945 $2 issue=1945c CNC oc=grn on=$400-unissued
1945 $2 grn issue=1945b d=Sun Yatsen (1945 a)
3/12/1945 $2 graygrn issue=Sun Yatsen death 20th d=Sun Yat-sen (1945)
7/7/1945 $2 issue=treaty 1943 d=map of China & three flags & Chiang
8/1945 $2 myrgrn&blk issue=Lin Sen memorial d=Lin Sen (1945)
10/10/1945 $2 issue=Chiang Kai-shek inauguration
1946 $2 olgrn issue=1946a d=Sun Yatsen (1931)
1948 $2 graybrn issue=1948g d=Sun Yatsen (1944) oc=blk on=$2-Sun Yatsen (1944)
1948 $2 car issue=1948g d=Sun Yatsen (1945 b) oc=blk on=1945-$20-car
1948 $2 dkcar issue=1948g d=Sun Yatsen (1946 a) oc=blk on=1946-$100-dkcar
1949 $2 issue=1949c oc=blk on=type=revenue-$50
5/1949 $2 bl issue=1949i d=flying geese