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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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| Composition | Paper |
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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 lettering | BANK OF CHINAN TEN CENTS 10 1939 |
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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.