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5000 Yuan Bank of Shansi, Chahar, & Hopei
| Issuer | Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei |
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| Year | 1947 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown-violet on yellow underprint. At left, a vignette presents a stone arch bridge within a landscaped scene incorporating trees and water. The denomination 伍仟圓 appears in a guilloche panel at right, with the bank name in Chinese characters along the upper border and repeated denomination numerals running along the side margins. |
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| Reverse description | Red-brown letterpress print on plain paper. The bank name BANK OF SHANSI CHAHAR & HOPEI spans the top margin, with the numeral 5000 at each corner; the centre is occupied by three large interlocking guilloche rosettes each bearing the numeral 5000. The legend FIVE THOUSAND YUAN and the date 1947 appear along the lower margin, with repeated denomination text filling the background as an underprint. |
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The Bank of Shansi, Chahar & Hopei — commonly called the Jin-Cha-Ji Bank after the Chinese abbreviations of the three provinces — was the financial arm of one of the Communist Party's most strategically vital base areas during the civil war against the Nationalists. This 1947 issue came at a period of rapid inflation and escalating military expenditure, when denomination values were climbing fast to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power across the liberated zones.
Jin-Cha-Ji currency was printed under wartime conditions, often on coarse regional paper with variable ink quality, and the series shows considerable production inconsistency across surviving examples. The bank itself was dissolved in 1948 when its note-issuing functions were absorbed into the newly consolidated People's Bank of China.