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5 Jiao Baode County Bank
| Issuer | Baode County Bank |
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| Year | 28 (1939) |
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| Size | 125 x 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | The central field bears the denomination in Chinese characters, with the bank name inscription running along the top margin and the Republican year at the foot. The county name appears on both lateral margins, flanked by two official manager seals in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Plain salmon-pink paper reverse, unprinted, with natural fibre inclusions visible across the surface consistent with hand-made Chinese paper stock. |
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Baode County Bank was one of hundreds of xian-level (county) financial institutions established across Shanxi and neighboring provinces during the Second Sino-Japanese War, issuing small-denomination scrip to keep local commerce functioning after the collapse of normal banking channels. These county banks operated under varying degrees of Japanese-sponsored or Nationalist-affiliated authority depending on which forces controlled the district at any given moment — Baode, a small county on the Yellow River in northern Shanxi, changed hands more than once during this period.
County-level scrip from 1939 Shanxi survives in very small quantities. Institutional destruction of records and notes was common on all sides as front lines shifted.