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title: 閩浙贛省蘇維埃銀行壹圓 (Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Soviet Bank, one-yuan note, 1933)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/min-zhe-gan-soviet-bank-one-yuan-1933/
description: 'Obverse (top) and reverse (bottom) of a one-yuan note of a Soviet-area bank in south-east China: the obverse centres on a red flag with a star between…'
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# 閩浙贛省蘇維埃銀行壹圓 (Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Soviet Bank, one-yuan note, 1933)

Obverse (top) and reverse (bottom) of a one-yuan note of a Soviet-area bank in south-east China: the obverse centres on a red flag with a star between two 'one yuan' panels under the bank's name, stamped with a round bank seal; the reverse is a text of assurance about silver reserves and convertibility and a penalty for forgery, signed by the bank manager. The tell is the borrowed emblem: the revolutionary government's flag is placed where a note would carry a portrait or arms, next to a text asserting full reserves.

- **Date:** 1933
- **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar)
- **Made by:** Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi (Min-Zhe-Gan) Soviet Bank, Chinese Soviet area
- **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia)
- **Country:** [Chinese Soviet Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=chinese-soviet-republic)
- **Medium:** [Banknotes and coins](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=banknote-coin)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Chinese Soviet Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=chinese-soviet-republic)
- **Leader:** [Mao Zedong](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=mao-zedong)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Reassure](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=reassure)
- **Themes:** [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military)
- **Event:** [Chinese Civil War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=chinese-civil-war)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Leader:** [Mao Zedong](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/peoples-republic-of-china-mao/#mao-zedong)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E4%B8%80%E5%85%83_1Y%C3%BCan_Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangsi-Soviet-Bank_1933_138x76mm.tif), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (PD China: organisational work, 50 years elapsed; Commons PD-1996) Scan by Wikimedia Commons user Zenwort of a 1933 note of the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Soviet Bank; Commons: Public domain

## Text on the object

Original (Chinese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[obverse, arc across top, right to left:] 閩浙贛省蘇維埃銀行
壹圓  壹圓
[four corner characters:] 壹
[bank seal, oval, with stars:] 閩浙贛省 銀行 [remaining characters illegible]
[small line at bottom, partly legible:] 一九三三年 第一期 [remainder illegible]
[reverse, right to left:]
本行鈔票現銀一律
準備基金十分充足
工農士兵攜帶錢幣 [remaining columns partly hidden by the seal: illegible]
如有偽造從嚴懲辦
行長 張其德 [name read from image, uncertain]
[round seal, centre: illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[obverse, arc across top, right to left:] Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Province Soviet Bank
One yuan  One yuan
[four corner characters:] One
[bank seal, oval, with stars:] Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Province Bank [remaining characters illegible]
[small line at bottom, partly legible:] 1933, first issue [remainder illegible]
[reverse, right to left:]
This bank's notes, cash silver, uniformly [literal reading; sense uncertain]
Reserve funds fully sufficient
Workers, peasants and soldiers carrying [money] [remaining columns partly hidden by the seal: illegible]
Anyone forging this will be severely punished
Bank manager Zhang Qide [name read from image, uncertain]
[round seal, centre: illegible]
```

Machine reading of a coarse red-and-blue print: characters are traditional forms as printed. The character 圓 (yuan) is used for the denomination. The third reverse column and the bank manager's name are the least certain readings.

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