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5 Chiao / 50 Cents Guangxua Shangdian
| Issuer | Guangxua Shangdian (Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Area) |
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| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette divided into two scenes: at left, a woman seated before a loom or weaving apparatus; at right, a flock of sheep in a pastoral landscape. The large Chinese numeral 五 (five) appears in an ornate cartouche at centre, with decorative floral corner devices. Chinese inscriptions along the top and bottom borders indicate the issuing authority and denomination, with the date of the Republic of China era at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark ink on a light ground, the reverse carries the romanised issuer name GUANGXUA SHANGDIAN across the upper panel within a rectangular frame, flanked by guilloche rosette corner ornaments. The denomination 50 appears at each of the four corners, with CENTS in a central cartouche below a large numeral 50 underprint. A signature appears at lower centre beneath the central vignette. |
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Guangxua Shangdian was a state trading company operating within the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region — the Communist-administered zone centered on Yan'an that functioned as a semi-autonomous territory during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Notes issued under these regional commercial entities circulated alongside Border Region Bank currency as part of a deliberate policy to keep the local war economy functioning independently of Nationalist-controlled financial networks.
The dual Pick reference reflects ongoing cataloguing disagreements about how to classify notes issued by quasi-governmental trading organs rather than formal banks. Condition problems on surviving examples almost always involve brittleness along fold lines — the wartime paper stock used in Yan'an-area printing was consistently poor.