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5 Yuan Farmer's Bank of Northwest China
| Issuer | Farmer's Bank of Northwest China (西北農民銀行) |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1935-1946) |
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| Obverse lettering | 西北農民銀行 (Xi Bei Nong Min Yin Hang / Farmer's Bank of Northwest China); 伍圓; 中華民國三十年印; 西北 |
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| Reverse lettering | SI BEI NUNG MIN IN XANG; 5; 5 |
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The Farmer's Bank of Northwest China was a communist-controlled institution operating in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region — the wartime administrative zone centered on Yan'an that served as the headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Notes like this one circulated in a deliberately isolated economy, designed to keep the border region financially independent from both Nationalist currency and Japanese-controlled notes flooding occupied territories.
The bank was established in 1936 and absorbed earlier regional financial institutions. By 1941, the border region was under Nationalist economic blockade, making local currency control a matter of political survival. P#S3296 is catalogued in the "S" prefix series, denoting its provincial and guerrilla-issue status — a classification that has historically made systematic collection difficult due to uneven survival rates and sparse documentation.