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1 Yuan Hupeh-Honan-Anhwei Soviet
| Issuer | Chinese Soviet Republic - Hupeh-Honan-Anhwei (鄂豫皖) Soviet Area |
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| Year | 1932 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | At center, a hammer and sickle are superimposed over a stylized globe featuring latitude and longitude lines, the whole enclosed within a beaded inner circle. Eight large Chinese characters arranged radially in the field surrounding the central device form the revolutionary legend. The design is bold and propagandistic in character, reflecting Soviet-influenced iconography adapted for the Chinese communist movement. |
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| Reverse script | Chinese/Latin |
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The Hupeh-Honan-Anhwei Soviet — known in Chinese as the Ö-Yü-Wan region — was one of the most militarily contested of the Communist base areas, subject to Chiang Kai-shek's encirclement campaigns that intensified sharply from 1930 onward. By 1932, Nationalist pressure had largely broken the region, forcing the Red Fourth Front Army's withdrawal into Sichuan. This coin was struck in that desperate window, partly to fund military operations and partly to demonstrate administrative legitimacy in territory the Communists were already losing.
Soviet-area coinage from Ö-Yü-Wan is considerably scarcer than issues from the Central Soviet in Jiangxi, and fakes have circulated in the collector market for decades.