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1 Yuan Northeast Kiangsi Soviet Bank

Issuer Northeast Kiangsi Soviet Bank
Year 1932
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Value 1 Yuan = 7.2 Mace (0.72)
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Obverse lettering 贛東北省蘇維埃銀行
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Reverse lettering 壹圓
憑票兌換銀幣壹圓
如有假偽造發現嚴辦
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The Northeast Kiangsi Soviet Bank was one of several short-lived financial institutions established by the Chinese Communist Party to serve base areas carved out during the early 1930s. This note predates the Long March by two years — issued at a moment when the Jiangxi Soviet was under sustained Nationalist encirclement campaigns, the so-called "bandit suppression" offensives that Chiang Kai-shek launched in successive waves beginning in 1930.

Soviet-area currency was a deliberate political instrument, designed to displace Nationalist and warlord-issued notes within controlled territory. Survival rate is low; most paper from these base areas was destroyed during military retreats or subsequent Nationalist occupation. S3438 is among the scarcer regional Soviet issues.

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