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100 Yuan 13th District Economy Co-operative Society
| Issuer | 13th District Economy Co-operative Society, Shantung Border Area |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown on yellow underprint. At left, a large central medallion with floral guilloche surrounds the denomination characters 壹百圓 (One Hundred Yuan). A vignette at right centre presents a traditional Chinese gate building flanked by columns. The issuer title 第三十區經濟合作社 (13th District Economy Co-operative Society) and the legend 流通券 (Circulating Note) appear at top, with red serial numbers on either side. Two red seal chops and the date 中華民國三十三年 (Republic of China Year 33) are inscribed at lower centre, with the geographical designation 山東 (Shantung) at both lateral margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | 第三十區經濟合作社 流通券 壹百圓 山東 中華民國三十三年 百圓 |
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The Shantung (Shandong) Border Area was one of several Communist-administered base areas behind Japanese lines during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Cooperative societies in these zones functioned as semi-autonomous economic units, issuing their own scrip to facilitate local trade outside the reach of both Japanese occupation currency and Nationalist-controlled banking. The 13th District designation places this note within a specific administrative sub-region of the broader Shantung base.
Unlisted in Pick means documentation is fragmentary at best. Notes from guerrilla-administered cooperatives were printed under field conditions, rarely survived in quantity, and were almost never systematically catalogued by contemporary or postwar authorities. The 1944 date puts this squarely in a period of intensive Japanese anti-base-area campaigns, which further suppressed both issuance volume and survival rates.