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10 Yuan Bank of Shansi, Chahar, & Hopei
| Issuer | Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei |
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| Year | 1946 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on a light ground, the obverse carries a central vignette of a steam passenger train in three-quarter view at centre right, with smoke rising from the locomotive. Chinese characters reading the bank name and denomination appear in vertical panels flanking the design, with the serial number and prefix letter above. A red seal overprint appears at lower centre, and the Republican year inscription runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 晉察冀邊區銀行 拾圓 |
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The Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei — known in Chinese as Jin-Cha-Ji Bank — was the primary financial institution of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, one of the communist-administered base areas established behind Japanese lines during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It continued issuing currency into the postwar civil war period, and this 1946 note belongs to that transitional phase, when the border region governments were still operating semi-autonomously before full PRC consolidation in 1949.
Border region notes of this type were frequently refused outside their designated circulation zones, making cross-region trade genuinely difficult. The Kuomintang government never recognized them as legal tender.