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1000 Yuan Bank of Shansi, Chahar, & Hopei
| Issuer | Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei |
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| Year | 1946 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown on yellow-orange and light green underprint. Central vignette of an automobile crossing a girder bridge, set within an ornate guilloche border with denomination numerals in each corner. Bank name and value inscriptions appear in both Chinese characters and English. |
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| Reverse description | Brown on tan underprint. The note is dominated by a large central guilloche panel bearing the denomination numeral '1000' in three positions, flanked by intricate lathe-work borders. The legend 'BANK OF SHANSI, CHAHAR & HOPEI' appears across the top, with 'ONE THOUSAND YUAN' along the lower border, all within a detailed ornamental frame. |
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The Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei — commonly abbreviated as the Jinchabei Bank in Chinese sources — was a Communist-controlled regional bank established to serve the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, one of the major anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines. By 1946, with Japan defeated and the civil war against the Nationalists escalating, the bank was issuing high-denomination notes partly to manage the inflationary pressure that had been building since the wartime economy began unwinding.
High-denomination Border Region notes from this period were frequently demonetized, withdrawn, or simply destroyed as Communist financial administration consolidated in the late 1940s, which accounts for the scarcity of surviving examples today.