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20 New Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) |
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| Year | 2001-2018 |
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| Composition | Bimetallic: copper-nickel centre in aluminium bronze ring (Outer ring: 92% copper, 6% aluminium, 2% nickel; Inner circle: 75% copper, 25% nickel) |
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| Obverse lettering | 年十九國民華中 莫那•魯道 (Translation: Republic of China, Year 90 Mona Rudao) |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 圓 • • (Translation: 20 Dollars) |
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Taiwan's 20-dollar denomination was introduced in 2001 partly to reduce wear on the 100-dollar note, which the central bank found was cycling through the economy faster than comparable banknotes in neighboring countries. The bimetallic construction was chosen specifically for machine-readability in transit systems — Taipei's MRT network was expanding rapidly at the time and fare gates needed reliable coin discrimination. The denomination never fully displaced the note it was meant to replace.