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20 Coppers Bank of Chinan
| Issuer | Bank of Chinan (冀南銀行) |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 20 Coppers (0.02) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green-grey ink, the note centres on a vignette of the Seventeen-Arch Bridge at the Summer Palace, rendered in a simplified woodblock-style impression. The bank title 冀南銀行 appears at the top, with the denomination 貳拾枚 in large characters flanking the central vignette, and the numeral 20 in the lower corners. The date 中華民國三十年 (Republic of China Year 30) is inscribed at the bottom centre, with additional vertical Chinese text in the side margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | 冀南銀行 貳拾枚 20 中華民國三十年 |
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The Bank of Chinan (冀南銀行) was established in 1939 as the financial arm of the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Border Region — the Communist-controlled territory straddling Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan provinces. Its notes circulated in direct competition with both Japanese military scrip and Nationalist currency, and local authorities actively suppressed rival issues to enforce acceptance of Chinan paper.
Small copper-denomination notes like this one were the workhorse of rural market transactions in the border region, where coinage had largely disappeared from circulation by 1941. Surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon — wartime paper quality was poor, and the notes were heavily used before redemption or destruction after Liberation-era currency consolidation.