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20 Coppers Bank of Shansi, Chahar, and Hopei
| Issuer | Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 晉察冀邊區銀行 貳拾枚 中華民國二十八年印 |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF SHANSI CHAHAR & HOPEI 局子矢 抗恕寅 LOCAL CURRENCY 1939 |
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The Bank of Shansi, Chahar and Hopei was established in 1937 under Japanese occupation authorities to provide a monetary instrument for the Provisional Government of the Republic of China — a collaborationist administration installed in Peiping following the Japanese seizure of northern China. Its notes were designed to displace Nationalist-issued currency and the old Hopei Provincial Bank issues that had circulated in the region.
The copper-denomination notes of 1939 were aimed specifically at small retail transactions, filling the fractional gap left by the near-disappearance of actual copper coinage from circulation after years of wartime metal hoarding and requisitioning.