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1 Yuan Kwangsi-Kweichow-Yunnan Border District Bank
| Issuer | Kwangsi-Kweichow-Yunnan Border District Bank |
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| Year | 1949 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Mao Tse-tung at left, with a vignette to the right showing a row of marching soldiers or workers rendered in a woodblock-print style. Chinese inscriptions appear in the central panel, and the date 1949 is printed at the bottom. The overall design is printed in reddish-brown ink on plain paper with a simple border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 滇黔桂边区银行 壹圆 1949 |
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The Kwangsi-Kweichow-Yunnan Border District Bank was one of several regional Communist financial institutions established in southwest China during the final phase of the civil war, issuing currency in areas wrested from Nationalist control before the People's Republic was formally proclaimed in October 1949. These border district banks were deliberately short-lived — once the PLA consolidated the southwest, regional issues were systematically withdrawn and replaced by People's Bank of China notes, making survival in any condition genuinely uncommon.
Pick S3719 falls into a category of transitional revolutionary currency that saw more administrative than commercial use.