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1000 Yuan
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Currency | First Rénmínbì (1949-1955) |
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| Obverse description | A panoramic industrial vignette occupies the right portion of the note, rendered in intaglio, showing a cityscape with a multi-arch bridge in the foreground, factory smokestacks, and distant hills under an open sky. To the left, a large circular guilloche rosette in orange and blue forms the central underprint, flanked by ornate scroll borders. The denomination 壹仟圓 appears in large characters at centre-left, with the issuer name 中國人民銀行 across the top and the date 一九四九年 along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in purple-violet and composed of dense guilloche latticework covering the full field, with two large circular rosette vignettes flanking the centre. The denomination 壹仟圓 is set in bold Chinese characters at centre, with the numeral 1000 repeated on both the left and right in large figures. The issuer name 中國人民銀行 arches across the top, and the year 1949 appears within a cartouche at the lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | 行銀民人國中 圓仟壹 1000 1000 1949 (Translation: People's Bank of China 1000 Yuan 1000 1000 1949) |
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