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10 Yuan Bank of Inner Chiang
| Issuer | Bank of Nен Chiang (嫩江銀行) |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | A vignette of a steam locomotive in motion occupies the right half of the face, set within a rectangular panel against a detailed landscape background. To the left, a large stylized cartouche encloses the denomination characters 拾圓 (Ten Yuan), flanked by two red official seals at lower centre. The bank title 嫩江銀行 appears in Chinese characters at upper centre, with the date inscription 民國三十五年印 (Printed in the 35th year of the Republic) along the lower border; serial numbers and prefix letter appear in red at upper left and upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 嫩江銀行 拾圓 民國三十五年印 |
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The Bank of Nen Chiang (嫩江銀行) was a regional Communist-backed institution established in Heilongjiang province during the immediate post-WWII struggle for control of Manchuria. With Soviet forces withdrawing and Nationalist and Communist armies racing to fill the vacuum, local currency issuance became a political act — these notes were tools of administrative control as much as economic instruments.
The Pick references S3507L and S3507M denote signature varieties within the same emission, a detail that matters more to specialists than the surface difference suggests, since such variants from short-lived regional issuers rarely survive in quantity from any signing combination.