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1 Yuan
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1949 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of an industrial factory complex with smokestacks and a locomotive on a road in the foreground, rendered in a fine line engraving style in dark purple on a light ground. The bank name 中國人民銀行 is inscribed at the top in a decorative panel, with the denomination 壹圓 displayed in a guilloche roundel to the right. Corner ornaments carry the denomination character 壹, and the date inscription 中華民國三十八年 appears along the lower margin, flanked by two red official seals. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large, intricate guilloche pattern in dark purple, composed of three overlapping elliptical rosettes with fine lathe-work engraving, centred on an arabesque medallion bearing the numeral '1'. The bank name 中國人民銀行 appears in a rectangular panel at the top, and the year '1949' is printed along the lower border. The numeral '1' also appears in the four corners within small decorative frames. |
| Reverse lettering | 行銀民人國中 1949 (Translation: People's Bank of China) |
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