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2 Chiao Chinese Soviet Republic Government Bank, Northwest Branch
| Issuer | Chinese Soviet Republic Government Bank, Northwest Branch |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Composition | Other (Cloth) |
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| Obverse description | Vertical format printed on cloth. Central vignette of a worker raising a hammer and a farmer raising a sickle, with a flag in the background. Letterpress text above and below the vignette carries the bank name and denomination in Chinese characters. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cloth reverse with no printed design or lettering, left entirely blank. |
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The Northwest Branch of the Chinese Soviet Republic Government Bank was established to serve the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region during the Long March period, when the Communist forces under Mao Zedong were consolidating their base areas in the northwest. Cloth was used as a substrate because paper was in critically short supply in remote interior regions — the same logistical isolation that defined the entire northwestern Soviet zone.
Pick S3278 is among the rarer emissions from this short-lived issuing authority, which was effectively defunct once the Second United Front reorganized Communist financial structures after 1937.