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1 Yuan Chinese Soviet Republic National Bank
| Issuer | Chinese Soviet Republic National Bank (Northwest Branch) |
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| Year | 1933-1936 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S3259-S3264 |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green ink, the reverse is composed of an elaborate guilloche underprint with symmetrical lathe-work patterns filling the central field. The word ONE appears in large Roman letters at the centre, flanked on either side by numeral 1 vignettes set within rosette frames. The four corners each bear the Chinese character 壹 within decorative medallions, and the date 1934 is displayed in a cartouche at the lower centre beneath an arched guilloche panel. The bank name 國家銀行 runs across the top border. |
| Reverse lettering | 國家銀行 ONE 壹 1934 (Translation: National Bank ONE 1934) |
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The Northwest Branch of the Chinese Soviet Republic National Bank operated out of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region — a zone of contested authority where Nationalist currency was actively suppressed and replaced with soviet-issue paper as a tool of economic administration. The bank was not a central institution in any conventional sense; it functioned as a regional instrument of the Jiangxi Soviet's financial policy during the period when the Long March had not yet consolidated communist territorial control into a single coherent zone.
The Pick range S3259–S3264 covers multiple variant issues across the 1933–1936 window, with differences in overprints, serial number formats, and issuing sub-authorities — distinctions that matter considerably for attribution but are frequently collapsed by dealers into a single lot.