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1 Sar = 1 Tael
| Issuer | Government of East Turkestan Republic |
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| Year | 1933 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | تورکستان حکومتی تابع سنده نورت یوز داچن سی آلادور بر سر دولت خزینهسی مالیاتی نفل |
| Reverse description | Dark blue typeset reverse with the same floral and geometric border repeated from the obverse, with the numeral "1" printed in each of the four corners. The central panel contains a large oval text block with multiple lines of Uyghur Arabic script setting out the legal tender declaration and penalty clauses for counterfeiting, with the serial number 7000 and a circular violet official control stamp applied by hand. |
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The East Turkestan Republic proclaimed in Kashgar in November 1933 was a short-lived Islamic state that survived barely over a year before Chinese Nationalist forces suppressed it. This note was produced locally under extremely primitive conditions — no professional printing house, no engraving infrastructure, nothing resembling a central monetary authority in any functional sense. The handstamp constitutes the entirety of its security apparatus.
The tael denomination ties it to the pre-Republican weight-based silver standard still in use across Xinjiang's bazaar economy, largely disconnected from Nanjing's monetary reforms.