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2 Fen Guangxua Shangdian
| Issuer | Guanghua Shangdian (Guanghua Store), Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Area |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Value | 2 Fen (0.02) |
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| Obverse lettering | 延安光華商店代償券 贰分 182421 中華民國二十七年印 |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse printed with seven lines of black Chinese text in a calligraphic hand, comprising the conditions of use and guarantee clauses for the note, followed by the issuer's name '延安光華商店' and a Latin script signature 'Guanghua' in ink below the text block. |
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The Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Area was the Communist Party's administrative base centered on Yan'an, and the trade cooperatives operating within it issued their own scrip well before the Border Area Bank had fully developed a regional currency infrastructure. Guanghua Shangdian was one such cooperative store, issuing fractional denominations in fen to handle small daily transactions that the larger notes could not practically serve.
1938 was early in the Border Area's monetary history — the region was still building the institutional mechanisms to displace Nationalist and warlord currencies. Store scrip like this filled that gap, redeemable only within the issuing cooperative's own commercial network.