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2000 Yuan Farmer's Bank of Northwest China
| Issuer | Farmer's Bank of Northwest China |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown-violet print on ochre underprint, with a central vignette of a farmer plowing a field with an ox at centre right. The denomination 貳仟圓 is rendered in large Chinese characters at centre, with two red seal chops flanking the lower portion. The issuing bank name 西北農民銀行 appears along the top margin, and the serial number and series prefix are printed in red at upper left and upper right respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | 西北農民銀行 貳仟圓 中華民國三十六年 |
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The Farmer's Bank of Northwest China was one of several regional CCP-aligned banks operating in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region during the civil war period. By 1947, Nationalist forces under Hu Zongnan had launched a major offensive against the Communist base areas, capturing Yan'an in March of that year. Currency issued in this environment was anything but stable — border region banks printed aggressively to fund military operations, and denominations climbed rapidly as inflation ate through lower values.
The 2000 Yuan figure reflects that inflationary pressure directly. Notes from this bank in this period are genuinely scarce in collectible condition, partly because paper quality in the border regions was poor and partly because surviving examples were often hidden or destroyed as the political situation shifted.