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| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vignette of two women in traditional Bouyei and Chaoxian ethnic minority dress, facing right, set against a guilloche underprint. The bank name in Chinese characters (中国人民银行) appears across the top, with the traditional character denomination 貳角 to the right of the figures. Arabic numeral 2 appears in both lower corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG 2 ER JIAO 2 1980 ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ ᠪᠠᠩᠬᠢ ཀྲུང་གོ་མི་དམངས་དངུལ་ཁང་ جۇڭگو خەلق بانكىسى Cuŋɓgoz Yinzminz Yinzhaŋz soŋ gak |
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The 1980 series — known in China as the "fourth set" of Renminbi — was designed and produced entirely domestically, a deliberate break from earlier series that had relied on Soviet technical assistance. The 2 Jiao was one of the lower-denomination notes in a series whose production spanned nearly a decade; although the series was officially released in 1987, individual denominations were issued in stages, and printing of some values began well before public release.
Paper deterioration is a known issue with fourth-set small denominations that saw heavy use in markets and transit systems throughout the 1980s and 1990s. High-grade survivors are correspondingly harder to source than the print run alone would suggest.