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1 Yuan Fukien-Chekiang-Kiangsi Soviet Bank, lime green
| Issuer | Fukien-Chekiang-Kiangsi Soviet Bank (閩贛新蘇維換銀行) |
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| Year | 1932-1933 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Lime green and red letterpress print on plain paper. A central vignette presents a hammer-and-sickle on a flag draped over a globe, flanked by symmetrical Chinese text columns reading top to bottom and left to right. An oval seal bearing Chinese text in right-to-left reading order appears at the lower right, with the denomination 壹圓 and the issuing date 一九三三年 repeated in the bordering panels. |
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| Signature(s) | Zhang Qide (行長張其德) |
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The Fukien-Chekiang-Kiangsi Soviet Bank was one of several regional financial institutions established by the Chinese Communist Party within its "border area" soviets during the early 1930s, operating in direct competition with Nationalist currency in zones the Red Army controlled. These notes functioned as genuine transactional instruments within soviet-administered villages, not propaganda pieces — peasants were expected to use them, and in many areas Nationalist banknotes were actively suppressed.
The lime-green color variant places this note within a documented subset of the S3471–S3476 range, where ink and paper sourcing fluctuated considerably given the blockade conditions under which the Provincial Note Printing Bureau operated. Zhang Qide's signature as bank director (行長) appears on very few surviving soviet-era instruments at this level of attribution.