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1 Yuan Chaishanzhou Special District Second Farmer's Bank
| Issuer | Chaishanzhou Special District Second Farmer's Bank |
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| Year | 1926 |
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| Size | 155 x 84 mm |
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| Obverse description | Uniface cloth note in vertical format, letterpress-printed in black. Chinese text reads right to left, with the denomination in large characters at centre. A hammer and sickle device appears within the design, consistent with Soviet-influenced local issue imagery. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is uniface, left entirely blank with no printed design, text, or ornamentation. |
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Cloth-composition notes from Chinese regional agricultural banks of the 1920s occupy a genuinely obscure corner of notaphily, and this piece is near the outer edge of that obscurity. The Chaishanzhou Special District Second Farmer's Bank was one of dozens of short-lived rural credit institutions that emerged in Hunan and neighboring provinces during the warlord period, issuing scrip backed by little beyond local authority — itself often tenuous.
The cloth substrate was not unusual for inland Chinese issuers of this period who lacked reliable access to security paper stock, though it made notes considerably harder to counterfeit with available rural means. Few institutional records from these district-level banks survived the political disruptions of the following decades.