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2 Chiao Southern People's Bank
| Issuer | 南方人民銀行 (Southern People's Bank) |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a worker and a farmer standing together in a field, with agricultural and industrial elements in the background, printed in brown on a plain ground. The denomination 貳角 appears in large characters within a decorative guilloche panel to the right, flanked by corner value tablets reading 貳. The bank name 南方人民銀行 is inscribed along the top, with the year 1949 at the base. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream-toned paper surface with no design, lettering, or ornamental elements. |
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The Southern People's Bank was one of dozens of regional and guerrilla-zone financial institutions operating in southern China during the final phase of the civil war. It was not a provincial central bank in any formal sense — more a financial instrument of local Communist military administration, issuing currency to facilitate procurement and troop provisioning in areas not yet under full PLA control. Notes from these bodies were typically produced under difficult field conditions, and printing quality reflects that.
The S-prefix Pick classification places this firmly in the local and regional issues category. Many notes from comparable southern guerrilla issuers were demonetized quickly once the People's Bank of China extended its network southward after 1949, meaning genuine circulation examples are rarer than surviving stocks suggest.