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20 Coppers Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan (冀南銀行) |
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| Year | 1941 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Purple letterpress print on cream paper. A vignette of the Seventeen-Arch Bridge at the Summer Palace occupies the central field, flanked on each side by the denomination numeral '20' within decorative cartouches. Chinese inscriptions name the issuing bank at the top, with additional text denoting the denomination and area of circulation below. |
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| Reverse lettering | TWENTY COPPER COINS 20 1941 |
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The Bank of Chinan — Ji'nan Bank in pinyin — was a Communist Party financial institution established in 1939 to serve the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu border region, one of the main anti-Japanese base areas straddling parts of Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan. Its notes were instruments of wartime economic administration as much as currency, deliberately circulated to displace both Japanese military scrip and the puppet regime's Federal Reserve Bank notes from occupied territories.
The 1941 copper-denomination issues occupied the low end of the guerrilla economy, used for small commodity transactions in rural markets where metallic coinage had largely vanished. S3073C is one of several fractional variants from that year, distinguished in the Pick listing by signature or color differences that can be subtle under poor light.