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200 Yuan / 200 Yan Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Area Bank
| Issuer | Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Area Bank |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 陝甘寧邊區銀行 貳百圓 中華民國三十二年 |
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| Reverse lettering | SHA'AN GAN NING BIANKY INXANG 200 ER BAI YAN 1943 |
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The Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Area Bank was the financial institution of the Chinese Communist Party's wartime base in Yan'an, and its notes circulated in a region largely cut off from both Nationalist-controlled China and Japanese-occupied territories. By 1943, the border area economy was under severe strain — a Nationalist economic blockade had been tightened significantly, restricting goods and currency flows into the region and forcing the Communist administration into increasingly self-reliant monetary policy.
The 200 Yuan denomination reflects the inflationary pressures of that moment. Printing was done locally under primitive conditions, which accounts for the considerable variation in ink quality and impression depth found across surviving examples of this series.