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10 Yuan Bank of Huai Nan
| Issuer | Huai Nan Bank (淮南银行) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1912-1949) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche cartouche enclosing the numeral 10 in bold letterpress, surrounded by intricate lathe-work underprint patterns. The legend XUAINAN JINXANG is printed in Latin script at the top, with the denomination numeral 10 repeated in each corner within ornamental frames. The date 1944 appears at the base of the central cartouche, and a dense repeating micro-text pattern of XUAINAN JINXANG fills the background fields on both sides. |
| Reverse lettering | XUAINAN JINXANG 10 1944 |
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The Huai Nan Bank was one of several Communist Party-controlled regional banks operating behind Japanese lines in the Yangtze-Huai River borderlands during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Its notes circulated in the New Fourth Army's base areas as a direct instrument of economic warfare — designed to displace both Japanese military yen and the Nationalist Central Bank's fabi in territory the Communists were actively contesting.
The "L" suffix on the Pick reference denotes a specific signature or regional variant within the series, distinctions that matter considerably given how many parallel issuing offices the bank maintained across different guerrilla zones in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces.