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50 Cash Northwest Anhwei Soviet
| Issuer | Northwest Anhui Provincial Soviet |
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| Year | 1932 |
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| Diameter | 39 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a hammer and sickle device superimposed over a stylized globe with longitudinal and latitudinal grid lines, conveying an internationalist communist motif. The globe is flanked by radiating lines suggestive of a rising sun or rays emanating outward. A dotted inner border separates the central device from the surrounding legend. Chinese ideograms encircle the entire design, reading as the communist rallying slogan in the outer legend. The overall execution is crude, consistent with the emergency hand-struck coinage produced by provincial Soviet mints. |
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| Obverse lettering | 全世界無產階級聯合起來呵 (Translation: All the proletarians of the world, unite!) |
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The Northwest Anhui Soviet was one of several short-lived Communist base areas established in the border regions of Anhui, Henan, and Hubei during the Chinese Civil War's early phase. Local soviet governments issued their own coinage partly out of necessity — Nationalist currency was distrusted or unavailable in controlled zones — and partly as a deliberate assertion of administrative independence. Production was improvised; dies were cut by hand and casting quality varied considerably between batches.
KM#2 is among the scarcer denominations from this issuer. The soviet itself was effectively dismantled by Nationalist suppression campaigns by late 1932, sharply limiting the total production window.