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2 Chiao / 20 Cents Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Area Bank
| Issuer | Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Area Bank |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a shepherd tending a flock of sheep in a pastoral landscape, rendered in fine letterpress. The denomination 貳角 (2 Chiao) appears in an ornamental circular cartouche at upper right, with a matching value tablet at lower left. The bank name 陝甘寧邊區銀行 runs along the top border, and the Republican calendar date 中華民國三十年 is inscribed at the bottom, flanked by guilloche border ornaments. A red serial number appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown, with a central vignette of an oil derrick and industrial buildings, likely representing the Yan'an oilfield, set within a rectangular frame flanked by guilloche panels. The denomination 20 CENTS appears in large numerals in the left and right panels, each above a label reading CENTS. The romanised bank name SHAAN GAN NING BIANKY INXANG is inscribed along the top border, and the year 1941 appears at the bottom centre. |
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The Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region was the Communist Party's administrative base during the Second Sino-Japanese War, centered on Yan'an. The Border Area Bank was established in 1937 specifically to manage a separate currency system within this territory — one that explicitly excluded Nationalist fabi and Japanese military scrip, both of which the CCP regarded as instruments of economic control by hostile powers. Issuing a parallel currency was as much a political act as a financial one.
The 1941 series emerged during a period of severe economic blockade imposed by Chiang Kai-shek's government, which cut off outside goods and forced the border region toward self-sufficiency. Notes from this year circulated hard and are frequently found with significant wear.