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2 Ch'uan Fantasy, Szechuan-Shensi Soviet Worker's and Farmer's Bank, grey
| Issuer | Szechuan-Shensi Soviet Worker's and Farmer's Bank |
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| Year | 1932-1933 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 來起合聯級階產無界世全 府政埃維蘇省陝川 行銀 - 農工 串貳 年三三九一 (Translation: Proletarians of the world unite! Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Government Worker`s and Farmer`s Bank 2 Strings (Ch`uan) Year 1933) |
| Reverse description | Vertical format, printed in black on cloth. A large hollow numeral '2' occupies the centre of the design, surrounded by a gear wheel set within an angular cubist geometric border. The overall composition reflects the Soviet-era constructivist aesthetic consistent with the obverse design. |
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The Szechuan-Shensi Soviet was established in late 1932 after Red Army forces under Xu Xiangqian broke into the Sichuan-Shaanxi border region, and the bank followed almost immediately — issuing currency was a political act as much as an economic one, asserting territorial legitimacy against Nationalist authority. Cloth composition was not an aesthetic choice; paper was scarce and unreliable in the remote mountain base areas, so locally available fabric was pressed into service.
The "Fantasy" designation in the catalog reflects genuine uncertainty about whether this specific variant actually circulated or was produced as a facsimile or later reconstruction. The grey cloth examples differ from the better-documented issues, and provenance for individual specimens is almost never traceable.