20 Yuan Bank of Rehher Sheeng

The Bank of Jehol Province was a short-lived institution operating under the administration of the Nationalist-aligned Rehe provincial government during the final years of the Chinese Civil War. By 1947, Communist forces under Lin Biao had already been pressing hard through Manchuria, and Rehe — a contested and strategically awkward province carved out under Japanese occupation and briefly absorbed into Manchukuo — was politically unstable enough that banknotes issued here carried meaningful risk even at the moment of printing.

The romanization "Rehher Sheeng" on the note reflects the older Wade-Giles-adjacent transliteration conventions used by Chinese provincial institutions in the Republican period, rather than any standardized system. The province itself was abolished in 1955, divided among Hebei, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia.