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10 Yuan Bank of West Shantung
| Issuer | Bank of West Shantung (魯西銀行) |
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| Year | 32 (1943) |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress print on yellow underprint, with Chinese text reading right to left. Central vignette shows farmers planting rice in a field. Four square seal-script overprints appear at the corners, with denomination and issuer inscriptions in vertical columns. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress print with guilloche rosettes enclosing the numeral "10" at left and right. Central vignette shows a traditional Chinese temple or gate complex with a mountain backdrop. The issuer title appears in a banner across the top, with denomination and date in a panel below the vignette. |
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The Bank of West Shantung (魯西銀行) was a Japanese puppet financial institution established to serve the occupied western Shandong region under the Wang Jingwei collaborationist framework. Notes of this bank circulated in a war-torn agricultural zone where the Nationalist, Communist, and Japanese-backed currencies competed simultaneously — often violently. Merchants in the region were frequently coerced into accepting puppet currency at artificial exchange rates.
Year 32 follows the Republic of China calendar, placing issue in 1943, near the peak of Japanese currency manipulation in occupied North China. Survival rates vary sharply across denominations; the 10 Yuan sees more wear than higher values, consistent with actual retail use rather than hoarding.