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1 Chiao Southern People's Bank
| Issuer | Southern People's Bank (南方人民银行) |
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| Year | 1949 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in rose-red on a cream paper ground, the obverse is dominated by a large central denomination vignette reading 壹角 (One Chiao) set within an ornate cartouche of scrolling floral and foliate guilloche work. The bank title 南方人民银行 (Southern People's Bank) is inscribed horizontally across the upper portion of the note, with the denomination 壹角 repeated in the upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, and lower-right corners. Small seal-style panel boxes appear at the left and right margins as additional decorative elements. |
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| Obverse lettering | 南方人民銀行 壹角 |
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The Southern People's Bank (南方人民银行) was one of several regional Communist-administered banks operating in south China during the final phase of the Civil War. These institutions issued local currency to facilitate trade and military logistics in newly liberated areas before the People's Bank of China had fully consolidated monetary authority — a consolidation that would effectively render most of these regional notes obsolete within months of issue.
P#S3483 is among the scarcer emissions from this bank. Short print runs, rapid political reorganization, and deliberate withdrawal from circulation mean surviving examples are genuinely uncommon, particularly in anything approaching undamaged condition.