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1 Chiao Fukien-Chekiang-Kiangsi Soviet Bank
| Issuer | Fukien-Chekiang-Kiangsi Soviet Bank |
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| Year | 1932-1933 |
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| Value | 1 Chiao (0.1) |
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| Obverse lettering | 閩浙贛省蘇維埃政府銀行 壹角 |
| Reverse description | Printed in red and black, the reverse is dominated by a large circular vignette filled with concentric bands of Chinese text setting out the terms and guarantees of the note. Vertical columns of Chinese characters occupy the left and right margins, and a manuscript serial number appears in red along the lower edge beneath the main design field. |
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The Fukien-Chekiang-Kiangsi Soviet Bank operated under the Chinese Communist Party's border region government during the Jiangxi Soviet period, issuing local currency as part of a deliberate strategy to displace Nationalist and commercial bank notes from circulation within controlled territories. These notes functioned as instruments of political consolidation as much as exchange — refusing them was not a neutral act in a zone under Red Army administration.
The 1932–33 dating places this issue squarely within the period before Chiang Kai-shek's Fifth Encirclement Campaign forced the eventual Long March evacuation. Survival rates for these border soviet issues are low; most were destroyed, lost, or deliberately suppressed after Nationalist forces retook the region.