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1000 Yuan Bank of Shansi, Chahar, & Hopei, back proof
| Issuer | Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Size | 122 × 48 mm |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress impression on plain cream paper stock, laid out in a horizontal format. Bilingual inscriptions in English and Chinese, reading right to left in the Chinese convention, flank a central ornate guilloche vignette, with denomination numerals and the year date incorporated within the typeset border arrangement. |
| Reverse lettering | Bank of Shansi Chahar & Hopei 仟 - 1000 - 壹 ONE THOUSAND YUAN 1947 (Translation: 1000 (Yuan)) |
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The Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei was a Communist-administered regional bank operating in the Jin-Cha-Ji border region — one of several such institutions the CCP established to fund military and administrative operations during the civil war against the Nationalists. By 1947, inflationary pressure was severe across all competing monetary zones in China, and the 1000 Yuan denomination reflects that reality directly.
Back proofs from this issuer are rare survivals. Most were never intended to leave the printing facility, and the collapse of regional banking structures in the transition to the People's Bank of China in 1948–49 resulted in wholesale destruction of archival material.