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1 Fen Fukien Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Fukien Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in red and dominated by an intricate guilloche underprint composed of repeating numeral "1" and the word "ONE" woven into a fine lattice pattern filling the entire field. A large cloud-shaped central cartouche contains the denomination characters 壹分 in bold relief. The bank title 福建省銀行 is repeated across the top panel in white lettering on a solid red ground, with the numeral "1" in each corner, and two manuscript signature entries appear flanking the central cartouche. |
| Reverse lettering | 福建省銀行 壹分 ONE 1 |
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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.