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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 |
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| Value | 100 Yuan |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue-black on pale yellow stock. A central oval vignette presents a landscape with a traditional Chinese pagoda or temple amid trees and water, enclosed within a geometric border. The numeral 100 appears in large format at both left and right, repeated inverted in the lower corners. The year 1944 is set within a decorative cartouche at the base of the central vignette. A guilloche border frames the entire design, with the legend THE LOCAL PROMISS CURENCY [sic] running across the top panel. |
| Reverse lettering | THE LOCAL PROMISS CURENCY 100 1944 |
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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.