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3 Ch'uan Szechuan-Shensi Soviet Worker's and Farmer's Bank; white
| Issuer | Szechuan-Shensi Soviet Worker's and Farmer's Bank |
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| Year | 1933 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 來起合聯級階產無界世全 府政埃維蘇省陝川 行銀 - 農工 串叁 年三三九一 (Translation: Proletarians of the world unite! Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Government Worker's and Farmer's Bank 3 Strings (Ch'uan) Year 1933) |
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| Reverse lettering | 3 |
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The Szechuan-Shensi Soviet base area (川陝蘇區) was established in late 1932 after the Fourth Red Army's westward retreat from the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet. The Worker's and Farmer's Bank notes issued there were part of a deliberate parallel economy — designed to displace Nationalist-aligned currency within controlled territory and pay Red Army troops. Paper supply in the mountain base was unreliable enough that cloth became a documented substitute medium, which is precisely what this note is.
The base area was effectively destroyed by 1935 during Chiang Kai-shek's encirclement campaigns, cutting the currency's active life to roughly two years.