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1 Yuan Farmer's Bank of Northwest China
| Issuer | Farmers Bank of Northwest Shansi |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Value | 1 Yuan |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and pale olive-green, the obverse carries a central vignette of a bridge at right with farmers at left against a lightly printed landscape underprint. The bank title in Chinese characters (西北農民銀行) is inscribed at top centre, with the denomination 壹圓 set within an ornate cartouche at centre. Serial number appears twice in red, with red seal impressions at lower left and right, and the issue date 民國二十九年 at bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | 西北農民銀行 壹圓 憑票即付國幣壹圓 民國二十九年印 |
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The Farmers Bank of Northwest Shansi was one of several regional banks operating under Nationalist Chinese authority during the Second Sino-Japanese War, issuing currency to maintain local economic function in areas under constant military pressure. Northwest Shansi — Shaanxi and the surrounding region — was contested territory throughout this period, and the banks operating there functioned partly as instruments of wartime fiscal control.
P#S3293 carries the "S" prefix in the Pick catalogue, placing it among the specialized and regional Chinese issues — a category where provenance documentation is frequently sparse and surviving quantities are difficult to verify independently.