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10 Yuan
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Value | 10 Yuan |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in blue, with an elaborate symmetrical guilloche design centred on a large ornamental panel bearing the denomination 拾圓 (Ten Yuan) in Chinese characters and the numeral 10 in large bold figures within circular cartouches at left and right. Intricate scroll and floral vignette work fills the corners and borders, and the issuer's name 中國人民銀行 appears in a curved banner at the top. The overall composition is characteristic of intaglio-style security printing with fine lathe-work patterns throughout. |
| Reverse lettering | 行銀民人國中 拾 圓 1948 (Translation: People's Bank of China Ten Yuan) |
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P#803 is among the first notes issued by the People's Bank of China, which was established on 1 December 1948 — just weeks before this series entered circulation. The bank was founded in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, through the merger of three Communist-controlled regional banks: the Huabei Bank, the Beihai Bank, and the Xibei Nongmin Bank. This first series of renminbi was not issued from a unified, stable state but from a government still fighting a civil war.
Printing quality across the first series varies considerably — multiple regional facilities were involved, and paper and ink consistency were not guaranteed under wartime conditions.