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1 Ch'uan Southeast Hupeh Worker's, Farmer's, and Soldier's Bank
| Issuer | Southeast Hupeh Worker's, Farmer's, and Soldier's Bank |
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| Year | 1931 |
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| Value | 1 Ch'uan |
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| Obverse lettering | 鄂東南工農兵銀行 壹串文 一九三一 |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a dense block of vertical Chinese text arranged in columns, presenting the conditions of issue and legal regulations governing the note's use, typical of Soviet-era Chinese currency. A scalloped outer border with star motifs at the corners frames the text field. Two faint red seal impressions are visible within the text area. |
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The Southeast Hupeh Worker's, Farmer's, and Soldier's Bank was one of dozens of short-lived soviet-area financial institutions established by the Chinese Communist Party in its rural base areas during the Nationalist encirclement campaigns of the early 1930s. These banks were functional instruments of wartime administration — collecting grain taxes, paying troops, and undercutting Nationalist currency in contested territory — not institutions built for longevity.
Hupeh (Hubei) soviet-area notes from 1931 are among the more difficult Chinese Communist period issues to authenticate, given the volume of later reproductions made for the collector market. Surviving originals typically show uneven ink distribution consistent with primitive field printing conditions.