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1 Yuan Fukien-Chekiang-Kiangsi Soviet Bank
| Issuer | Fukien-Chekiang-Kiangsi Soviet Bank |
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| Year | 1932-1934 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S3471-S3476 |
| Obverse description | Printed in green and red on a plain paper ground, the obverse carries a central vignette of a red star-bearing flag on a globe, flanked on all four corners by the denomination character 壹 (one). The bank name in Chinese characters is inscribed across the upper panel, with the denomination 壹圓 repeated in the side panels. A circular official seal stamp appears in the lower right area, and a multi-line text block at the foot records the issuing authority and printing details. |
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| Obverse lettering | 閩浙贛省蘇維埃銀行 壹圓 |
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The Fukien-Chekiang-Kiangsi Soviet Bank operated out of the short-lived Minzhewan Soviet — a border region base area established by Fang Zhimin's forces straddling three provinces in southeastern China. These notes circulated within a guerrilla economy, financing grain procurement, troop pay, and local mobilization during the Nationalist encirclement campaigns. The bank had no connection to the main Central Soviet organs at Ruijin; it functioned as a genuinely autonomous regional issuer.
Fang Zhimin was captured by Nationalist forces in January 1935 and executed that summer. The Soviet area collapsed shortly after, and most of this currency was either destroyed in the field or confiscated. Survivors are rare precisely because there was no orderly withdrawal — just collapse.