Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1000 Yuan Maojgungs Liutungkyan
| Issuer | Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Area Trade Bureau Commercial Company (陕甘宁边区贸易公司商业流通券) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1946 |
| Type | Local banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Vertical format printed in olive-green on plain paper. A central rectangular vignette presents an industrial factory complex with smokestacks set against a clouded sky, framed by an ornate guilloche border with floral corner medallions bearing Chinese characters. The large denomination characters 壹仟圓 appear in a decorative cartouche in the lower half, with red serial numbers printed twice above and below the central design. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Vertical format printed in pale grey-tan on plain paper. The entire face is occupied by a dense block of vertical Chinese text set within a scalloped guilloche frame with corner roundels bearing the denomination numeral 1000. The text comprises the official terms and conditions of issue, authorizing the note's use throughout the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Area. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region was the Communist Party's administrative base at Yan'an during the latter stages of the civil war and the Sino-Japanese War, and the Trade Bureau's commercial notes were a parallel currency system designed to manage trade flows at the border rather than replace the region's own Border Bank notes. The 1946 date puts this issue in the immediate postwar period, when inflationary pressure from Nationalist-controlled zones was flooding the border economy with depreciating fabi.
High-denomination notes like this 1000 Yuan were a direct response to that inflation. Survival rates for Border Region commercial paper are low — much of it was redeemed or destroyed after the PLA's territorial consolidation in 1949.