Soviet YSK $ w/o - c/s - Museum Gallery

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Listed in the Dec. 2010 Ponterio HK sale of the Wa She Wong collection (lot # 341) as an issue of the Chinese Communist Party to be used to purchase goods in Nationalist Chinese areas. The use of Soviet Red Army issues was illegal in these areas and could mean death to those is posession. Unlisted in KM, L&M listed # 899. It would take an experienced collector to determine these from the myriad of other YSK types. This coin, the only documented example I have ever seen, sold for a total of $5463.

Here are a number of RARE articles on Communist Chinese Soviet coins & notes from the Moneta Library:
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Chinese Soviet Coins and Notes - Raeburn (1st research 1937!): [ link ]
Chinese Soviet Coins Intriguing - Hogan: [ link ]
Chinese Communist Armies - Kann (excerpt): [ link ]
Soviet Chinese Copper Coins - Hua Guangpu (Little Brown Book): [ link ]
Wa She Wong Soviet coins sale Dec 2010: [ link ]
Communist Copies of a Republican Chinese Dollar - by David Spence (Numismatics International's "Bulletin" Jan, 2004 at this: [ link ]

The premier articles on Early Chinese Soviet issues are the invaluable documents below. It covers the history, coins and notes from 1927-1935 and includes photos and a map: (with color photos; in 3 parts);
Money of Communist China - Sandrock Part I: [ link ]
Money of Communist China - Sandrock Part II: [ link ]
Money of Communist China - Sandrock Part III: [ link ]