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100 Yuan without YUAN
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 100 Yuan (100元, 壹佰圆) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Mao Zedong facing left, positioned at right, with the national emblem of China — Tiananmen Gate surmounted by five stars — at upper left. At left, a vignette of Prunus mume blossoms accompanies the denomination 壹佰圆 below the numeral 100, while a vertical arabic numeral 100 appears at upper right. A hybrid-printed optically variable numeral 100 is situated at lower left, serving as a machine-readable security element within a guilloche underprint. |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Mao Zedong; embedded security thread; optically variable numeral 100 at lower left of obverse shifting colour under different angles; microprinted repeating text 100RMB100RMB and 人民币人民币 along the bottom border of the reverse |
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The "without YUAN" designation refers to a specific printing variant of the fifth series 100 Yuan note in which the pinyin romanization "YUAN" was omitted from the face. This is not a post-issue alteration — it reflects an early production state before the typography was standardized across the full print run. The variant is catalogued separately (Pick 901 versus the standard Pick 901a) precisely because it predates the correction.
Fifth series notes were the first Chinese issues to incorporate optically variable ink on the numeral denomination, a counterfeit deterrent adopted in direct response to sophisticated forgeries that had plagued the fourth series through the 1990s.