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10 Yuan Bank of Shansi, Chahar, & Hopei
| Issuer | Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei (晋察冀边区银行) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on a pale yellow underprint. The central vignette portrays an agricultural scene of farmers ploughing fields with a horse and an ox against a mountainous landscape. The bank title 晋察冀边区银行 appears at the top, the denomination 拾圓 is set within a floral guilloche cartouche at centre, and the date 民國三十四年 (Republic Year 34) is inscribed along the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 晋察冀边区银行 拾圓 民國三十四年 冀執邊 |
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The Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei was the financial arm of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, one of the most important Communist-controlled areas behind Japanese lines in northern China. This note dates from 1945, the final year of the Second Sino-Japanese War, when the border region government was simultaneously fighting Japanese forces, managing inflation, and competing monetarily with both puppet-bank currencies and Nationalist-issued notes — all circulating in overlapping zones of contested territory.
The S3172 and S3172A variants are distinguished by minor typographic or color differences, a common feature of wartime regional printings where consistency of materials was impossible to maintain. Production under guerrilla conditions meant plate quality and ink supply fluctuated issue to issue.