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10 Yuan Bank of West Shantung
| Issuer | Bank of West Shantung |
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| Year | 34 (1945) |
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| Currency | Yuan (1935-1946) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress print. Chinese text reads right to left, with a rural vignette of a road and gate at left and a building at right. Circular overprints bearing Chinese seal-script characters appear across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | 拾 - 拾 行銀西魯 圓拾 印年四十三國民華中 10 - 10 (Translation: 10 (Yuan) - 10 (Yuan) Bank of West Shangtung 10 Yuan Printed in Year 34 of the Republic of China) |
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The Bank of West Shantung was a Communist-administered regional bank operating in the Jiaodong and Bohai base areas during the final years of the Second Sino-Japanese War. These regional currency systems were deliberately decentralized — each liberated area maintained its own bank and issued its own notes to prevent Japanese or Nationalist forces from disrupting the entire monetary supply through a single point of failure. Year 34 corresponds to the 34th year of the Republic of China calendar, placing this note squarely in the chaotic final months before Japan's surrender in August 1945.
Circulation was strictly local. These notes were not redeemable outside their issuing base area, a limitation that was policy, not oversight.