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1 Chiao / 10 Cents 7th Administrative District Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Area Cooperative Society
| Issuer | 7th Administrative District Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Area Cooperative Society |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1935-1946) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a riverside settlement with buildings and a bridge rendered in letterpress style within a rectangular frame. Large Chinese characters 壹角 (one chiao) appear in a floral cartouche below the vignette, with a red serial number beneath. Chinese inscriptions border the note on all sides, with 壹角 repeated at lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-red note with romanized text arranged in stacked registers: ZIN CHAGI at top, DIC IXINGZHENGKY, DI, XOZUOSHO, and LIUTUNGKYAN. A large guilloche numeral 10 occupies the central cartouche with floral ornament. A cursive signature appears below the numeral, with the year 1941 at the foot. Numeral 10 repeated at all four corners. |
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The Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Border Region — the Jin-Cha-Ji base area — was one of the most politically and militarily significant Communist-controlled zones of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Cooperative societies within these districts issued their own small-denomination scrip partly to displace Japanese Military Yen and puppet bank currencies that had flooded rural markets after 1937. The 7th District notes were functional instruments of economic resistance as much as anything else.
1941 was a particularly difficult year for the border region — Japanese mopping-up campaigns intensified, supply lines contracted, and local financial institutions operated under genuine threat of destruction. Notes from this period that survived did so largely by accident.