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100 - Taizong of Tang 598-649 AD
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Vignette at right of Emperor Taizong of Tang (Li Shimin, 598–649 AD) in full imperial robes, rendered in classical Chinese portrait style. Central guilloche underprint incorporates stylised dragon mask and interlocking coin motifs. Large Chinese characters 历代帝王 appear at centre-left, with secondary legend 中华至尊币 above, and denomination numeral 100 in a diamond cartouche at upper right. |
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| Reverse description | Vignette reproducing a classical Tang-dynasty court painting, referencing the celebrated scroll tradition considered the golden era of Chinese figurative art and mandated study material for imperial heirs. Multicolour guilloche underprint frames the composition with traditional decorative borders. |
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This note belongs to the fifth series of Renminbi, introduced by the People's Bank of China beginning in 1999. The fifth series marked a significant modernization of Chinese banknote production, incorporating intaglio printing, color-shifting ink, and embedded security threads — a deliberate response to increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting of fourth-series notes that had plagued circulation through the 1990s.
Taizong of Tang, the Tang dynasty emperor whose reign is associated with the so-called "Reign of Zhenguan," is among the most consistently celebrated rulers in Chinese historiography. His selection for currency was a political as much as a cultural choice.