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1 Chiao / 10 Cents Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1935-1946) |
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| Obverse description | Green-black letterpress print. A steam passenger train crosses a bridge set against a mountainous background at left, rendered in a linear vignette style typical of wartime Chinese regional issues. |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green letterpress print. The central design is dominated by a large numeral '10' set within an elaborate guilloche framework, flanked symmetrically by ornate rosette underprints and the denomination inscription 'TEN CENTS' repeated on either side. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower field above the date '1939', with corner numerals '10' in octagonal cartouches at each corner and the bank title 'BANK OF CHINAN' across the top. |
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The Bank of Chinan was a regional bank established under the Japanese-sponsored Reformed Government of the Republic of China, which controlled parts of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui provinces from 1938. These small-denomination notes were issued specifically to facilitate low-value transactions in occupied territories where existing Chinese currency was being systematically displaced — not a central banking operation in any conventional sense, but an instrument of economic administration under occupation.
The "b" suffix on S3064 typically denotes a color or signature variant within the series. Provincial puppet-bank notes of this type were often printed in multiple variants over short windows, and survival rates vary considerably between them.