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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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| Value | 2 Chiao (0.2) |
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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, set against a background with a flag. The design is rendered in a simple, utilitarian letterpress style consistent with wartime Soviet-area field printing. |
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| Reverse description | Vertical format printed on cloth. Central vignette of a mounted horseman set before a shield bearing a radiant star, executed in a plain letterpress style. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions border the central design. |
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The Northwest Branch of the Chinese Soviet Republic Government Bank operated out of the Shaanxi-Gansu border region during the mid-1930s, when the Communist base areas were under sustained Nationalist economic blockade. Access to paper and conventional printing materials was severely constrained, which is precisely why cloth was pressed into service as the substrate for this issue. It was a practical response to a supply problem, not an aesthetic choice.
The Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet area notes are among the rarest surviving physical artifacts of the pre-Long March communist administrative apparatus. Most were withdrawn and reissued or destroyed as the base areas consolidated after 1935.