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10 Yuan
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Currency | Second Rénmínbì (1955-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 中国人民银行 10 拾圆 10 10 (Translation: People's Bank of China, Ten Yuan) |
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| Reverse lettering | ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG 10 10 ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ ᠪᠠᠩᠬᠢ ཀྲུང་གོའི་མི་དམངས་དངུལ་ཁང་། جۇڭگو خەلق بانكىسى ئون يۈەن Cuŋɓgoz Yinzminz Yinzhaŋz cib mənz 10 SHI YUAN 1980 |
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This note belongs to the fourth series of Renminbi (第四套人民币), launched in 1987 though backdated to 1980 — a gap explained by the sheer logistical complexity of rolling out a complete series across China's distribution network. The fourth series was the first to use multi-ethnic minority figures as the primary design theme, a deliberate policy decision reflecting post-Cultural Revolution efforts to rehabilitate minority representation in official imagery.
The watermark on fourth-series notes is a repeating floral pattern — less sophisticated than the security infrastructure that would follow in the fifth series, but a significant step up from the third series' minimal protections during a period when domestic counterfeiting was a genuine concern for the People's Bank.