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Y# 518 WWII Japanese puppet state, East Hebei Autonomous Council (1937) 5 Cent

Y# 518 WWII Japanese puppet state, East Hebei Autonomous Council (1937) 5 Cent

WWII Japanese puppet state

The East Hebei Autonomous Council Year 26 (1937) 5 Cent

Y# 518

 

The East Hebei Autonomous Council Year 26 (1937) 5 Cent Copper-nickel

Obverse: Chinese ideograms - from right to left:

冀東政府 = The East Hebei Autonomous Council (1935–1938)
中華民國二十六年 = Republic of China, year 26

Lettering:
府政東冀
年六十二國民華中

Reverse
Lettering:




Edge: Smooth

 

The East Hopeh Autonomous Council

The East Hopeh Autonomous Council (Chinese: 冀東防共自治政府; ) also known as the East Ji Autonomous Council and the East Hopei Autonomous Anti-Communist Council, was a short-lived late-1930s Japanese puppet state in northern China.

After the creation of Manchukuo and subsequent military action by the Imperial Japanese Army, which brought Northeastern China east of the Great Wall under Japanese c