Catalog
10 Yuan
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2005 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At right, a portrait of Mao Zedong faces left, rendered in intaglio. The national emblem of the People's Republic of China — the Tiananmen Gate surmounted by five stars — occupies the upper left. To the left, a floral vignette in underprint accompanies the denomination in Chinese characters (拾圆) and a guilloche underprint border, while the Arabic numeral '10' appears in the upper right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | 中国人民银行 (Zhōngguó rénmíng yínháng) 10 10 拾圆 （Shí yuán） 毛泽东 （Máozédōng） 1893-1976 (Translation: People`s Bank of China 10 10 Ten Yuan Mao Zedong 1893-1976) |
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The 2005 series marked the first major redesign of the fifth series renminbi notes since their initial rollout beginning in 1999. For the 10 Yuan specifically, the 2005 revision introduced a more sophisticated security thread with microprinting and revised the color-shifting ink application — changes driven partly by escalating counterfeiting pressure that had plagued the earlier fifth-series issues throughout southern China's manufacturing regions.
Pick 904 is the standard domestic-circulation type. A specimen version exists with the usual "SPECIMEN" overprint and cancelled serial format, issued for central bank reference purposes.