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50 Yuan Bank of Shansi, Chahar, & Hopei
| Issuer | Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green letterpress print on paper. The central vignette presents a riverside landscape with a small boat on calm water and traditional dwellings set against a hillside. The bank name 晉察冀邊區銀行 runs across the upper border, the denomination 伍拾圓 appears in large characters to the left of the vignette, two red seal stamps are positioned at the lower centre, and the date 中華民國三十四年 runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print on paper. The central vignette presents a rural building complex set among trees and open landscape. The arc inscription BANK OF SHANSI CHAHAR & HOPEI runs along the upper border, the numeral 50 appears in large serif type at both the left and right flanks, and FIFTY YUAN is set within a panel at the bottom with the year 1945 below it, the whole framed by an ornate guilloche border. |
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The Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei — commonly abbreviated as the Jin-Cha-Ji Bank after the Chinese names of those three provinces — was the currency authority of one of the Communist Party's most strategically important base areas during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Notes issued by this bank circulated in the border region government's territory rather than through any conventional banking system, functioning essentially as a war economy currency backed by nothing more than political authority and military control of territory.
By 1945, the Jin-Cha-Ji border region was in its final year before the Japanese surrender fundamentally reshuffled the political geography of North China. This note belongs to a late-war emission produced under the pressure of wartime inflation that had been grinding through the region for years. Survival rates for base-area currency of this type vary enormously — much was deliberately withdrawn and pulped after Liberation-era monetary consolidations replaced regional emissions with unified People's Bank notes.
Pick S-prefix designation confirms provincial or special issuer status within the standard cataloguing framework.