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20 Yuan Bank of Rehher Sheeng
| Issuer | Bank of Jehol (熱河省銀行) |
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| Year | 1947 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a multi-tiered pagoda set within a riverine landscape with trees and hills, rendered in a woodblock-style intaglio technique. The denomination 貳拾圓 (Twenty Yuan) appears in large Chinese characters on the left, with the bank title 熱河省銀行 inscribed across the upper portion. The date 中華民國三十六年 (Republic of China Year 36) is printed along the lower border, with the serial letter prefix A and a red serial number in the upper right. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF REHHER TWENTY YUAN 1947 20 |
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The Bank of Jehol (熱河省銀行) operated under shifting political authority throughout the 1940s — Jehol province itself had been part of the Japanese-controlled state of Manchukuo since 1933, and its banking infrastructure was rebuilt under Communist administration after the Soviet entry into Manchuria in August 1945. By 1947, the province was firmly within the Communist-controlled northeast, and notes like this one were issued to fund the People's Liberation Army's logistical operations during the civil war against the Nationalists.
The "Rehher Sheeng" romanization on the note is a Wade-Giles rendering of the province name — its appearance signals notes intended partly for administrative legibility beyond purely local use.