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100 Yuan Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress print on pale underprint. A central vignette presents a multi-storey tower set within a rectangular frame, flanked by vertical columns of Chinese text and decorative guilloche borders. Serial number appears twice in the upper field, with Chinese denomination characters in the left and right panels; a red seal impression and the date inscription in Chinese are visible at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Uniform red letterpress print throughout. A central oval vignette presents a traditional Chinese city gate, surrounded by an elaborate pattern of interlocking circular guilloche rosettes filling the entire field. The English bank name is inscribed in a banner at the top, the numeral "100" appears in large figures to the left and right of the vignette, and the denomination legend and year are set in a panel at the base. |
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The Bank of Chinan (Jinan Bank) was a communist-controlled regional bank operating in the Shandong-Jiangsu border region under the Shandong Branch Bureau of the CCP during the final years of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Its notes circulated in liberated areas as a direct challenge to both Japanese military scrip and Nationalist fabi, functioning as an instrument of economic administration in territory the communists were actively consolidating.
By 1945 several of these regional revolutionary banks were being quietly wound down or absorbed as the CCP centralized its financial apparatus in anticipation of renewed civil war with the Kuomintang. Notes from this late period often saw limited distribution before being superseded.