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2 Yuan Farmer's Bank of Chung-Chou, black
| Issuer | Farmers Bank of Chung-Chou |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Value | 2 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | 中州農民銀行 貳圓 中華民國二十七年 |
| Reverse description | Black letterpress print on a plain white ground. A bold central panel carries the inscription 'THE FARMERS BANK OF CHUNG-CHOU' on a ribbon cartouche above the denomination 'TWO YUAN' set within a dark intaglio-style rectangle, with the year '1948' at the base. The overall design is enclosed in a decorative border of interlocking guilloche scrollwork with floral corner ornaments. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower field. |
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The Farmers Bank of Chung-Chou (中州農民銀行) was a Communist-administered regional bank operating in the Central Plains liberated zone during the final phase of the Chinese Civil War. Notes from this institution circulated in territory that changed hands rapidly — sometimes violently — between Nationalist and People's Liberation Army forces throughout 1947 and 1948, which makes survival in any condition genuinely uncommon.
The suffix "b" distinguishes this from the earlier black-on-colored-underprint variant. By late 1948, the bank was absorbed into the newly consolidated People's Bank of China structure ahead of formal proclamation of the PRC.