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50 Cents
| Issuer | Monetary Bureau of Government Kansu |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Value | 50 Cents (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 甘肅平市官錢局 伍角 全國兌兌業 圓幣付收券 中華民國二十四年 R088957 |
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| Reverse lettering | MONETARY BUREAU OF GOVERNMENT KANSU TWO 50 CENTS TO BE EXCHANGED ONE DOLLAR 50 CENTS FIFTY CENTS KANSU 1935 PRESIDENT GENERAL MANAGER R088957 |
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The Monetary Bureau of Government Kansu was one of several provincial financial authorities operating in northwestern China during the Nationalist period, issuing fractional notes to address chronic small-denomination shortages that central bank supply lines rarely reached. Gansu (romanized as "Kansu" in the Wade-Giles convention standard to this era) remained economically isolated enough that local paper circulated with near-complete indifference to what was happening in Nanjing.
Provincial issues from this region are consistently underrepresented in Western collections — not because of low survival rates per se, but because so little material left the province before 1949.