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1 Yuan Szechuan-Shensi Soviet, 'Fat Man dollar' imitation
| Issuer | Szechuan-Shensi Soviet |
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| Year | 1931-1934 |
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| Diameter | 39 mm |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse script | Chinese |
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The Szechuan-Shensi Soviet was established in late 1932 as a Chinese Communist base area straddling the border between Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces, and its coinage was issued partly to fund the Red Army and partly to displace Nationalist currency in controlled territory. This piece deliberately copies the general format of the Qing dynasty "Fat Man dollar" — the Yuan Shikai portrait yuan — not as counterfeiting in the legal sense, but as a calculated political act: issuing silver that local merchants would accept without suspicion while the reverse carried Soviet iconography.
Workmanship on these issues is consistently crude relative to Republican-era commercial silver, a product of improvised mountain mint facilities rather than any established monetary infrastructure.