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10 Yuan
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents two standing figures — a factory worker holding a hammer and a farmer carrying a harvesting tool — rendered in fine intaglio engraving against a lightly worked background. The large denomination numeral 圓拾 appears to the right within an ornate guilloche cartouche, flanked by vertical denomination inscriptions repeated in each corner. A red seal impression and a red block prefix appear to the left of the serial number, with the issuer's name in Chinese characters across the top and the Republican calendar date along the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | Left portion carries a scenic landscape vignette of a multi-storey pagoda set among trees and low buildings, executed in detailed intaglio line engraving. To the right, a large guilloche rosette frames the numeral 10 at centre, providing an anti-counterfeiting underprint element. The bank name in Chinese characters is positioned at the top, the year 1949 appears in a panel along the lower edge, and the entire field is enclosed within an elaborate guilloche border. |
| Reverse lettering | 行銀民人國中 10 1949 (Translation: People's Bank of China) |
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