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1 Fen Fukien Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Fukien Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1896-1949) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on pale paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of a riverside scene with a traditional Chinese pavilion, a multi-storey pagoda rising behind it, and a sampan on the water in the foreground, all set within a fine guilloche underprint. The bank title 福建省銀行 appears in Chinese characters across the top panel, with the denomination 壹分 rendered in a blue scalloped cartouche at right. A blue overprint character 天 appears at left centre, two seal-stamped chop marks flank the serial number at bottom, and the printer's inscription 中華民國二十九年豐印 runs along the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 福建省銀行 壹 壹分 天 中華民國二十九年豐印 |
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Fukien (Fujian) Provincial Bank operated under conditions of extreme administrative fragility during this period — the province was subject to repeated Japanese military pressure throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s, and provincial currency issuance was as much about maintaining governmental presence as it was about facilitating trade. Notes of this denomination were workhorse fractional currency, printed cheaply and circulated hard in a province where Japanese occupation forces were advancing in stages rather than all at once, leaving pockets of Nationalist-controlled territory dependent on local paper.
Survival rates for these small-denomination wartime provincials are low not because of rarity at issue but because nobody kept them.