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| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1947 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Sun Yat-sen at left, printed in dark blue on a purple and red underprint. Red serial numbers and official seals appear on the face, with Chinese inscriptions identifying the issuing bank, denomination, and date of issue in the 36th year of the Republic. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark blue, dominated by an elaborate central guilloche medallion bearing the Chinese denomination characters 壹萬圓 (Ten Thousand Yuan), flanked on each side by large numeral counters reading 10000 set within intricate floral and lace-pattern guilloche work. Signature inscriptions of two officials — the Bureau Director (局長) and Deputy Bureau Director (副局長) — appear in Chinese script to the right and left respectively, with the denomination repeated in Arabic numerals along all four borders. |
| Reverse lettering | 10000 壹 萬 圓 局長 梁平 副局長 陳廷邨 (Translation: Ten Thousand Yuan / Bureau Director Liang Ping / Deputy Bureau Director Chen Tingcun) |
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