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10 Yuan - Teller Practice Banknote
| Issuer | Unknown (Chinese banking training institution) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Size | 140 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central intaglio-style vignette of a modern urban landscape with multi-storey residential buildings, a tree-lined waterfront promenade, and a decorative fountain rendered in fine black line-work. A pink guilloche band runs across the upper border, with the romanised legend CHUNADIANCHAOLIANGONGBISAIZHUANYONG printed in black. The year '2018年' appears at lower centre, while the inscriptions 练功专用, 内部使用, and 禁止流通 are printed in bold orange characters on the left and right margins respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | 练功专用 内部使用 禁止流通 10 2018年 CHUNADIANCHAOLIANGONGBISAIZHUANYONG (Translation: Practice only Internal use Non circulation) |
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Training notes produced for bank teller instruction in China circulate almost entirely outside normal numismatic channels — they are institutional consumables, not intended for the public, and most are destroyed after use. This one survived. The issuing institution is unidentified, which is typical: Chinese banking schools and state-owned bank training centers rarely print their name prominently on practice material, and no central registry of such issues exists.
The 2018 date places it within a period when Chinese banks were modernizing teller certification programs, partly in response to the rapid decline in cash transaction volumes driven by mobile payment adoption. Training notes remained necessary precisely because cash handling errors carry real liability.