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20 Yuan
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Size | 152 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Chiang Kai-shek in military uniform at right, rendered in intaglio against a red guilloche underprint. The central vignette carries the denomination in Chinese characters, with the bank title 中央銀行 inscribed across the top. Corner numerals repeat the denomination value, and two red seal impressions appear at lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | 中央銀行 貳拾圓 (Translation: Central Bank of China Twenty Yuan) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette shows a riverside landscape with a multi-storey pagoda atop a rocky promontory, surrounded by trees and watercraft on the river below, all executed in fine line engraving. Elaborate guilloche rosettes and scroll-work border panels flank the central scene on both sides, each bearing the numeral 20 and the legend TWENTY YUAN in vertical arrangement. The bank title runs in letterpress along the top margin. |
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