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100 Yuan Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 100 Yuan |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress print on a fine guilloche underprint. Central vignette shows a city square and ceremonial gateway, surrounded by an ornate frame with dragon motifs at the sides. Denomination in Chinese characters appears in vertical panels to the left and right, with bank name inscription across the top and date inscription at the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | 冀南銀行 壹百圓 太行 中華民國三十三年印 |
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The Bank of Chinan (Jinan Bank) was a Communist-controlled regional bank operating in the Shandong-Jiangsu border area during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Its notes circulated in liberated zones as the CCP's answer to both Japanese military scrip and Nationalist fabi, deliberately undercutting both by maintaining tighter controls on issuance than the Chongqing government managed with its own currency.
By 1944 the bank was printing higher denominations to keep pace with wartime inflation eating through smaller notes. S3084A is one of the scarcer regional variants within the series — the suffix letter distinctions in this Pick group reflect plate or printing differences that remain incompletely documented.