5 Yuan Bank of Central China

The Bank of Central China (中央银行) was a regional authority bank established under the Chinese Communist Party's base area administration in Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi — not to be confused with the Nationalist government's own Central Bank of China. This note was issued in the final year of the Second Sino-Japanese War, when Communist-controlled areas in central China maintained their own parallel currency systems largely independent of Chongqing's financial apparatus.

The S-prefix in the Pick reference places it in the specialized regional category, reflecting its limited geographic circulation within a contested wartime zone rather than any national monetary framework.