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1 Fen Sinkiang Provincial Bank
| Issuer | Sinkiang Provincial Bank |
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| Year | 1949-1950 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1939-1949) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress note on cream paper, centred around a cloud-shaped vignette enclosing a landscape scene with trees. The bank name in Chinese characters (新疆省銀行票) is printed at the top centre, with the denomination 壹分 flanking the central vignette. Two red seal impressions appear in the lower left and right quadrants. The serial number in red is repeated twice across the upper portion of the note, and a text panel at the bottom carries the redemption and date inscriptions in Chinese, reading Republic of China year 38. |
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| Reverse lettering | شاڭجاڭ ئۆلكە بانكاسى شاڭجاڭ ئۆلكەملك كومۇش فل بىر تىيىنگە بىر كومۇش دۆللارتو لنيبور 1949 |
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The Sinkiang Provincial Bank operated in China's far northwest under shifting political authority during one of the most turbulent transitions in twentieth-century Chinese history. By 1949–1950, the People's Liberation Army had moved into Xinjiang, and existing provincial institutions were briefly permitted to continue issuing notes while the new monetary framework was being imposed. This 1 Fen exists precisely in that liminal window — issued under a name that was already becoming obsolete as the People's Bank absorbed regional currency functions across the country.
Low-denomination fractional notes from this period were consumed by everyday transaction and rarely survived in quantity.