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400 Wen Sinkiang Provincial Government
| Issuer | Sinkiang Provincial Government |
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| Year | 1931 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Blue guilloche outer border encloses a warm-toned central panel with vertical Chinese administrative text in multiple columns; below, several lines of Uyghur Arabic script carry the equivalent proclamation text. Corner rosettes appear at each angle. |
| Reverse lettering | 新疆省政府主政廳財政廳 此須湘平官票每紅錢興百文作 解繳公銀壹兩民間充糧納稅儘通用如有偽造定照印法罪此示 民國二十年 |
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The Sinkiang Provincial Government notes of 1931 were issued under Yang Zengxin's successor administration in a region that had functioned as a virtually autonomous warlord state for decades, with its own monetary system largely disconnected from Nationalist China's currency policy. The province's chronic shortage of copper coinage made high-denomination wen notes a practical necessity rather than an inflation symptom — 400 wen was a working denomination, not an emergency measure.
Sinkiang paper money from this period is notorious for the chaotic variety of issuing offices, chop marks, and overprints applied locally, making clean attribution difficult. Provenance documentation matters considerably for this series.