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10 Yuan Farmer's Bank of Chung-Chou
| Issuer | Farmer's Bank of Chung-Chou (中州農民銀行) |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Value | 10 Yuan |
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| Obverse lettering | 中州農民銀行 拾圓 中華民國三十七年 |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red-brown. The large numeral 10 occupies the centre, flanked on either side by the denomination 拾圓 set within rectangular panels with ornamental floral cornerpieces. The bank name 中州農民銀行 is inscribed across the top, and the year 1948 appears at the foot of the central design. |
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The Farmer's Bank of Chung-Chou was a regional institution operating in Henan province under Nationalist-aligned administration. By 1948, hyperinflation had rendered the currency issuing environment almost unworkable — the Nationalist government's fabi and later gold yuan were collapsing, and regional banks like this one were producing notes in denominations that would have seemed absurd just a few years earlier.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this firmly in the specialized category of Chinese provincial and military issues, a classification that reflects how fragmented monetary authority had become across the mainland in the final phase of the Civil War.