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2 Chiao Bank of Eastern Chekiang
| Issuer | Bank of Eastern Chekiang (浙東銀行) |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 浙東銀行處支行 貳角 壹九四五年 |
| Reverse description | Uniface reverse printed on plain paper, left largely blank. A red square seal stamp is applied near the centre-left, and handwritten Chinese brush script inscriptions appear to the right in vertical columns. A violet serial number is visible at lower centre. |
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The Bank of Eastern Chekiang (浙東銀行) was a regional institution operating in what is now Zhejiang Province during the final phase of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Notes issued in 1945 fall into a complicated transitional window — Japanese surrender came in August of that year, and provincial and guerrilla-backed banks in the region were issuing currency in circumstances that often outpaced any formal monetary authority.
The Pick unlisted status is telling. Documentation for small-denomination regional issues from wartime Zhejiang remains fragmentary, and surviving examples rarely surface with solid provenance.