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2 Yuan Farmer's Bank of Chung-Chou, Specimen
| Issuer | Farmer's Bank of Chung-Chou |
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| Year | 1948 |
| Type | Non-circulating banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print with a central vignette of a rural agricultural landscape, with fields and farm structures in the middle ground. The bank title in Chinese characters runs across the top, with the denomination in large Chinese characters at left and right. Two red overprint characters serve as the specimen cancellation, appearing over the face value areas at left and right. |
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| Reverse lettering | THE FARMER'S BANK OF CHUNG-CHOU TWO YUAN 1948 |
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The Farmer's Bank of Chung-Chou (中州農民銀行) was a regional Communist-controlled bank operating in the Central Plains liberated zone during the final phase of the Chinese Civil War. Notes from this institution circulated in a narrow window of political and military transition — the bank was effectively superseded as the People's Bank of China consolidated currency authority from late 1948 onward.
The P#S-NL designation indicates this issue has not been formally catalogued in the Pick supplement series, which is not unusual for short-lived regional banks of this period. Specimen examples are the primary survivors; circulated examples are exceptionally rare in any condition.