2 Yuan Farmer's Bank of Chung-Chou, black

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.