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20 Yuan
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in reddish-brown tones, the obverse presents a composite vignette with Chinese sailing junks at left and a coal mine with railway wagons and smokestacks at right, evoking both traditional and industrial themes. The bank title 中國人民銀行 runs across the upper register, with the denomination 貳拾圓 set within an ornate central panel. Corner numerals repeat the value 貳拾 at each angle, all enclosed within a geometric guilloche border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is rendered in orange-brown on plain paper, with three large rosette guilloche medallions each bearing the numeral 20 arranged symmetrically across the note's width. An architectural arch motif frames the central medallion, while the bank title 中國人民銀行 appears in a cartouche at the top and the denomination numeral 20 is repeated in all four corners. |
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This note belongs to the First Series Renminbi, issued during active civil war while the Communist Party was still consolidating territorial control — the People's Bank of China had only been established in December 1948, and printing infrastructure was fragmented across liberated zones. Multiple regional facilities produced First Series notes, and consistency between print runs was never guaranteed.
P#822 is among the scarcer denominations of the series. Genuine examples have been extensively counterfeited in the modern collector market, and authentication requires close attention to paper texture and intaglio depth.