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5 Chiao / 50 Cents 7th Administrative District Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Area Cooperative Society
| Issuer | 7th Administrative District Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Area Cooperative Society |
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| Year | 1941 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Predominantly red letterpress design with a dense guilloche background. The denomination '50' appears in each corner; bold Chinese and romanised legends read 'ZINCHAGI BIANKY', 'DICIXINGZHENGKY', 'WU CHIAO', 'XOZUOSHO', and 'LIUTUNGKYAN', centred within a floral rosette. Date 1941 at foot; a manuscript signature occupies the lower panel. |
| Reverse lettering | ZINCHAGI BIANKY DICIXINGZHENGKY WU CHIAO XOZUOSHO LIUTUNGKYAN 1941 50 |
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The Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Border Region — known in Communist Party records as the Jin-Cha-Ji base area — was one of the earliest and most strategically important guerrilla zones established behind Japanese lines after 1937. The 7th Administrative District cooperative currency was part of a deliberate economic strategy: parallel monetary systems designed to displace Japanese military scrip and puppet bank notes from local circulation, starving occupation forces of economic control without direct military engagement.
1941 was a particularly brutal year for the region — the Japanese "Three Alls" pacification campaign devastated villages across Hopei. That this note was printed and distributed at all under those conditions is the more pertinent detail.