100 Yuan 13th District Economy Co-operative Society

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.