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1000 Yuan Bank of Shansi, Chahar, & Hopei
| Issuer | Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1946-1949) |
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| Obverse description | Green on light underprint. Central vignette shows a pastoral scene with horses and cattle grazing near a body of water, with a tent and cart in the background under a cloudy sky. Bank name in Chinese characters (晋察冀邊區銀行) appears at top, with the denomination 壹仟圓 (One Thousand Yuan) in large characters below; two red seal impressions appear at lower left and right, and the date 中華民國三十五年 is printed at the bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF SHANSI CHAHAR & HOPEI 大好河山 1000 ONE THOUSAND YUAN 1946 |
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The Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei — commonly called the Jinci Bank in Chinese sources — was a Communist-controlled regional bank established to finance operations in the Jin-Cha-Ji border region during the civil war period. The 1946 high-denomination issues like this 1000 Yuan were necessary responses to severe inflation eating through lower-value notes faster than they could be printed and distributed across guerrilla-held territory.
Border region currencies were explicitly prohibited from circulating in Nationalist-controlled zones, and Nationalist forces periodically conducted confiscation campaigns. Notes that survived did so largely by accident.