1000 Yuan Bank of Central China

The Bank of Central China (中央中国银行) was a Communist-controlled regional bank established in 1948 to facilitate currency unification across the liberated areas of Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi. Notes dated 1947 predate the formal bank consolidation and reflect the transitional period when multiple separate base-area banks were still issuing competing scrip — this 1000 Yuan denomination belongs to that unstable interim phase, before the People's Bank of China absorbed regional issuers entirely in 1949.

Pick S3397 is catalogued among the regional revolutionary base-area issues, a classification that often understates how politically fraught local currency acceptance actually was. Peasants in contested zones frequently refused paper from either side.