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1 Jiao / 10 Cents Farmers Bank of China
| Issuer | Farmers Bank of China |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Fen (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a rural village scene engraved in blue, with thatched-roof structures, bare deciduous trees, and figures along a country path beside a waterway and farm buildings. The bank title 中國農民銀行 runs across the top, with floral rosette medallions at upper left and right bearing the denomination 壹角. The lower portion carries the denomination panel 壹角 at centre, a red serial number at right, and subsidiary inscriptions giving the date and redemption clause, all within an ornate guilloche border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 中國農民銀行 壹角 中華民國卄六年印 積成拾角兌付國幣壹圓 中國大業公司 (Translation: The Farmers Bank of China 1 Jiao (10 Cents) Printed in the 26th year of the Republic of China Accumulate 10 Jiao to exchange for 1 Yuan Taye Printing Company) |
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The Farmers Bank of China was reorganized under direct Nationalist government control in 1935, two years before this note was issued, giving it a quasi-official status that sat uneasily between a commercial agricultural lender and a full state bank. By 1937, the outbreak of full-scale war with Japan had already begun to distort the entire fabi currency system — notes like this entered circulation into an economy under extreme pressure, with rural credit networks collapsing across the affected provinces.
Chung Hwa Book Company was one of the principal commercial printers used by Nationalist-era banks before the wartime dispersal of printing capacity made consistent production increasingly difficult.