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1 Yuan Chinese Soviet Republic Bank of Hunan-West Hupeh Special Branch
| Issuer | Chinese Soviet Republic National Bank, Hunan-West Hupeh Special Branch |
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| Year | 1931 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 中華蘇維埃共和國家銀行湘鄂西特區分行 壹圓 S912565D 一九三一年 |
| Reverse description | Brown note printed in letterpress with a central architectural vignette of a multi-tiered pagoda and temple gate set against a rocky hillside, identified by the romanised inscription CHANGSHA below the central scene. The denomination character 壹 appears in ornate cartouches at left and right, flanked by vertical columns of Chinese text bearing political slogans. Additional inscriptions run along the left and lower margins. |
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The Hunan-West Hupeh Special Branch was one of several regional soviet banking organs operating under the Chinese Soviet Republic's financial apparatus in the early 1930s, each issuing its own notes with limited interoperability. This branch served the revolutionary base areas straddling the Hunan-Hubei border — territory under the Fourth Army Corps, which had been operating independently of the Jiangxi central soviet since the late 1920s.
Survival rates for notes from these peripheral soviet branches are extremely low. Kuomintang suppression campaigns through 1931–1934 meant that captured currency was routinely destroyed, and communist forces themselves burned remaining stocks during retreats to prevent enemy use.