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2 Chiao / 20 Cents 7th Administrative District Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Area Cooperative Society
| Issuer | 7th Administrative District Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Area Cooperative Society |
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| Year | 1941 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a traditional Chinese pavilion or temple within a circular guilloche frame, set against an orange-toned floral underprint. Large Chinese characters 貳角 (two jiao) appear to the left within an ornate lozenge cartouche, with denomination 20 at lower corners. Vertical panel at top bears the issuing authority inscription in Chinese characters. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface letterpress print in red-orange ink with a dense guilloche border and scrollwork filling the entire field. Denomination numeral 20 appears at left and right within the design. Romanized transliteration of the issuing authority name runs along the top and bottom margins, with the year 1941 at foot center. |
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The Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Border Region was one of the principal Communist base areas established behind Japanese lines in North China after 1937. Cooperative societies within these regions functioned as quasi-monetary authorities, issuing notes to manage local trade and reduce dependence on puppet-bank currencies. This 1941 issue from the 7th Administrative District sits within that broader network — district-level rather than regional, which makes it considerably harder to trace in terms of surviving print runs or issuing records.
Notes from subordinate cooperative bodies at this scale were rarely documented systematically, and many were withdrawn or destroyed as the border region's own Bank of Shansi-Chahar-Hopei consolidated currency control through the mid-1940s.