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3 Ch'uan Fantasy; Szechuan-Shensi Soviet Worker's and Farmer's Bank
| Issuer | Szechuan-Shensi Soviet Worker's and Farmer's Bank |
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| Year | 1933-1934 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1930-1936) |
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| Obverse description | Vertical-format note printed in blue on cloth. Central vignette shows a raised fist above a star superimposed on hammer and sickle, set against a cubist geometric underprint. Chinese legends run vertically in right-to-left reading order. |
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| Reverse lettering | 3 |
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The Szechuan-Shensi Soviet base area, established in late 1932, operated in the mountainous border region between the two provinces under the Fourth Front Red Army. Currency issued here was entirely local — the central Soviet government in Jiangxi had no reach this far north. Paper shortages in the region led some issues to be struck on cloth rather than conventional banknote stock, which is precisely what this piece represents.
Cloth-substrate notes from this Soviet are among the rarest physical artifacts of the Chinese Communist currency experiment. Most were demonetized and discarded when the Fourth Front Army began its own Long March westward in 1935.