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10 Yuan without YUAN
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At right, an intaglio portrait of Mao Zedong faces left, positioned against a fine guilloche underprint. The national emblem — Tiananmen Gate surmounted by five stars — appears at upper left, accompanied by the bank title 中国人民银行 in intaglio across the top. The denomination is expressed both in Chinese characters 拾圆 at lower left and as the Arabic numeral 10 repeated at upper right, flanking a floral guilloche vignette at lower left. |
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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 1999 10 Yuan series produced a known variety in which the romanized word "YUAN" was omitted from the denomination text — a straightforward printing error rather than an intentional design change. China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation produced enormous quantities of this series, and quality control lapses of this kind, while uncommon, are documented across several denominations from this period.
The error was not officially acknowledged, and affected notes entered circulation without recall. Collector interest has always outpaced confirmed population data for this variety.