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10 Coppers Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan (冀南銀行) |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S3073 |
| Obverse description | Red-orange letterpress print on cream paper. A central vignette presents the Seventeen-Arch Bridge of the Summer Palace, with figures visible at its base. Denomination panels reading 拾枚 appear at left and right in ornate cartouches, with numeral 10 roundels at the lower corners. The bank name 冀南銀行 is inscribed across the upper field, and the date 中華民國三十年 appears along the lower border. |
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| Reverse lettering | TEN COPPER COINS 銅 1941 |
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The Bank of Chinan — more accurately romanized from 冀南銀行, the Ji'nan Bank — was a Communist Party financial institution operating in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was not a conventional bank in any commercial sense; it functioned as a wartime monetary authority for territory held by the Eighth Route Army, issuing currency specifically to undercut Japanese military scrip and the puppet regime's Federal Reserve Bank notes that were being pushed into the same villages.
Printing conditions in the border region were genuinely primitive — paper stocks and ink quality vary considerably across the 1941 issues, and the presses were moved repeatedly to avoid Japanese sweeps.