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10 Yuan / Dollars Central Bank of China
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio portrait of Sun Yat-sen within an oval vignette, set against an elaborate multicolour guilloche underprint in brown, green, and pink tones. The denomination 拾圓 appears in large Chinese characters flanking the portrait on both sides, with the bank title 中央銀行 inscribed across the top. The four corners carry repeating denomination characters, and the lower margin bears the date inscription and printer's imprint, with two manuscript signature stamps applied in Chinese script at left and right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀央中 拾 圓 幣貨用通 印年二十國民華中 司公票鈔國美 (Translation: The Central Bank of China General currency Printed in the 12th year of the Republic American Bank Note Company) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in dark olive-black intaglio, the reverse is dominated by a symmetrical guilloche design composed of interlocking scrollwork and lathe-work patterns radiating from a central circle containing the numeral 10 and the date 1923. A large ornate numeral 10 occupies the upper centre, flanked by the word TEN repeated in each quadrant and by diamond-shaped numeral panels at the four cardinal points. The bank title THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA runs across the top in a decorative panel, with TEN DOLLARS in a ruled border at the foot and the printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. below. |
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