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5 Yuan / 5 Yan Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Area Bank
| Issuer | Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Area Bank |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-brown on plain paper, centred on a large numeral 5 set within an elaborate floral and scroll guilloche design, flanked by the Chinese characters 伍 and 圓. Two manuscript signatures appear across the lower centre of the note. The romanised bank name SHAAN GAN NING BIANKY INXANG is inscribed along the top border, with the denomination U-YAN at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | SHAAN GAN NING BIANKY INXANG 伍 圓 5 U-YAN |
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The Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region was the Communist Party's administrative base at Yan'an, and the bank operating there functioned as much as a political instrument as a financial one. Notes issued from 1941 onward were part of a deliberate push to displace Nationalist fabi currency from local circulation — a monetary contest running parallel to the military one. The border area banks printed aggressively, and inflation followed.
Pick S3655 belongs to a series that saw extremely heavy wartime use in a rural economy with limited alternatives. Survivors in any condition above heavily worn are genuinely uncommon.