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5 Yuan Hunan-Hupeh Border Construction Bank
| Issuer | Yu-O (Hunan-Hupeh) Border Area Construction Bank |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 5 Yuan |
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| Obverse lettering | 隊邊區建設銀行 伍圓 中華民國三十一年 |
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| Reverse lettering | THE CONSTRUCTIVE BANK OF YU-O PROVINCE FIVE YUAN 1942 |
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The Yu-O Border Area — straddling Hunan and Hubei provinces — was one of several Communist-controlled base areas that maintained parallel financial systems during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Local border banks issued their own currency partly to resist Japanese military scrip and puppet bank notes, which were being deliberately flooded into occupied and contested zones to destabilize the regional economy. Acceptance of the border notes was enforced within Communist-administered territory as a matter of political control as much as economic necessity.
The unlisted Pick status reflects how poorly documented this issue remains. Border area notes from this period survive in very small numbers, and attribution is complicated by the overlapping jurisdictions of several short-lived regional institutions with near-identical names.